See other posts now tagged Six Dots.
Related narrative: Raiders of the Lost Ring .
Saturday, September 21, 2019
Monday, October 7, 2013
Post-Production (continued)
This journal on Oct. 2, the date of death for
the developer of mathematical Braille —
Clicking on the image of St. Peter's Square in that post led to…
Braille, as noted in last midnight's post, is based
on a six-dot cell. For some pure mathematics of
the six-dot cell, see
Modeling the 21-point plane
with outer automorphisms of S6
Two quotations that seem relevant —
"When Death tells a story, you really have to listen"
— Cover of The Book Thief
"This is not theology, this is mathematics."
— Steven H. Cullinane, Sept. 22, 2013
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The Book of Abraham
On Abraham Nemeth, the developer of Braille
for blind students of mathematics —
"… he began tinkering with the six-dot cell
that is the foundation of Braille."
For a different six-dot cell, see Nocciolo .
"Throughout his life, he dedicated much of his
spare time to creating Braille versions of Jewish
texts, including helping to proofread a Braille
Hebrew Bible in the 1950s." — Nemeth's obituary
Those who prefer entertainment may consult The Book of Eli.
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Friday, July 27, 2012
Raiders of the Lost Ring
Wikipedia on a magical ring—
Background— The Ring and the Stone, a story linked to here Wednesday.
"By then he was familiar with the work of the Vienna Actionists….
He once said that he had his first taste of the movement
when he heard the screams of his mother’s dental patients
from her office next door to the family’s apartment."
— Obituary of a Viennese artist who reportedly died Wednesday
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