A Nietzschean Transvaluation —
Monday, January 1, 2024
For Deborah Shelton* and the late Gerald Cargo** . . .
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Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Seal 7 . . .
See John Baez this morning on Galois. Note that Baez's
report of Galois's dies natalis is in error.
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Thursday, April 27, 2023
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
For the Crimson Abyss
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Wednesday, March 8, 2023
The Adapter
See Helen Mirren with a plastic 45-rpm record adapter.
Related Log24 posts — Galois Seals.
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Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Reality as a Third-Rate Joke
For Sean Carroll, author of . . .
See also Carroll in this journal.
Related humor for Doctor Strange —
Windows Lockscreen at 12:43 AM ET tonight —
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I prefer the non-humor of Cold Mountain .
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Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Interstices
Perhaps Crossan should have consulted Galois, not Piaget . . .
From Hermann Weyl's 1952 classic Symmetry —
"Galois' ideas, which for several decades remained
a book with seven seals but later exerted a more
and more profound influence upon the whole
development of mathematics, are contained in
a farewell letter written to a friend on the eve of
his death, which he met in a silly duel at the age of
twenty-one. This letter, if judged by the novelty and
profundity of ideas it contains, is perhaps the most
substantial piece of writing in the whole literature
of mankind."
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Saturday, May 7, 2022
Interality Meets the Seven Seals
Related material — Posts tagged Interality and Seven Seals.
From Hermann Weyl's 1952 classic Symmetry —
"Galois' ideas, which for several decades remained
a book with seven seals but later exerted a more
and more profound influence upon the whole
development of mathematics, are contained in
a farewell letter written to a friend on the eve of
his death, which he met in a silly duel at the age of
twenty-one. This letter, if judged by the novelty and
profundity of ideas it contains, is perhaps the most
substantial piece of writing in the whole literature
of mankind."
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Saturday, September 24, 2016
The Seven Seals
From Hermann Weyl's 1952 classic Symmetry —
"Galois' ideas, which for several decades remained
a book with seven seals but later exerted a more
and more profound influence upon the whole
development of mathematics, are contained in
a farewell letter written to a friend on the eve of
his death, which he met in a silly duel at the age of
twenty-one. This letter, if judged by the novelty and
profundity of ideas it contains, is perhaps the most
substantial piece of writing in the whole literature
of mankind."
Some Galois geometry —
See the previous post for more narrative.
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Monday, April 25, 2016
Seven Seals
An old version of the Wikipedia article "Group theory"
(pictured in the previous post) —
"More poetically …"
From Hermann Weyl's 1952 classic Symmetry —
"Galois' ideas, which for several decades remained
a book with seven seals but later exerted a more
and more profound influence upon the whole
development of mathematics, are contained in
a farewell letter written to a friend on the eve of
his death, which he met in a silly duel at the age of
twenty-one. This letter, if judged by the novelty and
profundity of ideas it contains, is perhaps the most
substantial piece of writing in the whole literature
of mankind."
The seven seals from the previous post, with some context —
These models of projective points are drawn from the underlying
structure described (in the 4×4 case) as part of the proof of the
Cullinane diamond theorem .
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