"Vast realm . . . enchanting . . . capturing the imagination . . .
profound elegance . . . deep connections . . . ."
— Jarod Alper in the December 2025
Notices of the American Mathematical Society,
discussing a topic illustrated on the Notices cover.
Sounds to me like he's channeling SID 6.7 (or Mark Helprin).
Related reading — "Diamonds and Dogs" and "Wag the Tag."
For philosophy professor Ellie Anderson of Pomona College —
A remark from Claremont Review —
"'Once upon a time' used to be a gateway to
a land that was inviting precisely because
it was timeless, like the stories it introduced
and their ageless lessons about the human condition."
– Dorothea Israel Wolfson,
Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2006
Some backstory —
See also The Word Wizard of Claremont.
Related catchphrase for Saturday Night Live —
Six Seven!
On the Miracle Octad Generator of R. T. Curtis —
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December 2025 Notices of the American Mathematical Society Jarod Alper, "Evolution of Stacks and Moduli" — "By a moduli space, we mean a geometric space whose points are in 'natural' bijection (more on what we mean by 'natural' in a moment) with isomorphism classes of your favorite mathematical objects, for example, Riemann surfaces or vector bundles on a fixed space. A moduli space is a solution to the classification problem: it packages all of the data of the geometric objects into a single space, a mathematical catalogue where any object can be located by selecting the corresponding point." |
Analogous notions:
Klein Space and Klein Quadric in this journal.
The Source:
Related art from a Log24 post of July 1, 2018 —
Greg Egan’s animated image of the Klein quartic —
. . . And then there is the Squarespace prize —
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