On Friday, Jan. 17, at 3:51 a.m. ET . . .
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Saturday, January 18, 2025
Requiem for a Fixture
Pure Mathematics as a "Relaxed Field" —
Not So Relaxed —
See as well "Devil's Night Art Notes" in other news of October 2020.
Friday, January 17, 2025
A Figure from Design Theory …
(The Visual Kind, Not the Purely Mathematical*)
In memory of a meeting of the Philomorphs at Sever Hall,
Harvard University, in 1978 . . .
Loeb died on July 19, 2002. Vide this journal on the next day.
* The purely mathematical kind —
“By far the most important structure in design theory
is the Steiner system S(5, 8, 24).”
— “Block Designs,” by Andries E. Brouwer
(Ch. 14 (pp. 693-746) of Handbook of Combinatorics,
Vol. I, MIT Press, 1995, edited by Ronald L. Graham,
Martin Grötschel, and László Lovász, Section 16 (p. 716))