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Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The Yellow Brick Road to the
Miracle Octad Generator, with Conwell’s Heptads

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:42 am

The Klein quadric as background for the Miracle Octad Generator of R. T. Curtis —

The Klein quadric, PG(5,2), and the 'bricks' of the Miracle Octad Generator

See also Saniga on heptads in this journal.

Monday, December 30, 2024

100 Years of “The Smallest Perfect Universe”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:04 am

The phrase "smallest perfect universe" is by Burkard Polster.
It refers to the smallest finite projective space of three dimensions.
As a sort of memorial to mathematics during the first 100 years
since the 1910 publication of Conwell's classic study of that space,
see a Log24 search for Space 2010 .

December XXX: Yellow Brick Road Meets Mania Lane

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:45 am

My Windows 11 lockscreen tonight —

"Tulip mania swept this land way back in the 17th century . . . ."

Earlier in this journal

Some historical background —

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