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Saturday, August 1, 2026

AI Vocabulary Notes

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 10:11 am

Google's AI Overview today reports that Fano founded "the field of
discrete geometric systems."

This suggests a vocabulary check.

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Compare and contrast a report by AI Overview yesterday —

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Just who founded what, when, is often a bone of academic contention.

Related mathematical entertainment

Other entertainment from the above Mathematical Intelligencer date —

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Friday, July 31, 2026

The “Schoolgirl Space”* PG(3.2) . . .
From Fano to Whitehead to Cullinane

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 6:44 am

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* See Kirkman's schoolgirl problem in Wikipedia, esp.
the sections "Galois Geometry" and "Spreads and Packing."

The geometry of what might be called "Schoolgirl Space"
is, as the above image "Geometry of the Six Element Set"
indicates, the same as the geometry of the "Hexastigm"
described by Richmond (King's College, Cambridge,
March 30, 1899) —

"On the Figure of Six Points in Space of  Four Dimensions,"
by H. W. Richmond, Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied
Mathematics
, Vol. 31 (1900), pp. 125-160.

This is available on the Web at Scribd.com . . .

https://www.scribd.com/document/424182244/
Richmond-QuarterlyJournal-1900-SixPoints
 .

Richmond's excellent historical survey, together with the Cullinane
square model of PG(3,2), provide the connection of finite  geometry
to earlier, non-finite geometry
that is lacking in some later treatments
of the subject . . . in particular, the connection to finite  geometry of
studies of the classical sixty Pascal lines of the Hexagrammum.

Saturday, December 19, 2020

Quackers

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:43 pm

An Internet search for the anonymous author Quack5quack yields . . .

Friday, December 18, 2020

Notes towards the Redefinition of Culture

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:18 pm

In the altered headline above, " Q******* " may, if you like,
be interpreted as " Quellers ," an invented term for scholars
who investigate the origins of Christianity.

See the Log24 post "Q is for Quelle " (November 7, 2020).

Dan Brown, like the earlier novelist who wrote The Source ,
is such an investigator  (of sorts), though not a scholar .

(For an example of actual scholarship , see the webpage
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/
middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED35525.
That  page may be interpreted as putting the "hit" in "s***.")

Square Space at Athens

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:37 am

(A sequel to the previous post, Square Space at Wikipedia)

Cyberpunk and the Dude

Related remarks: A Dec. 16 Wikipedia revision by Quack5quack,
and posts in this  journal tagged Helsinki Math.

Thursday, December 17, 2020

Square Space at Wikipedia

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:45 pm

The State of Square-Space Art at Wikipedia  as of December 16, 2020,
after a revision by an anonymous user on that date:

See also Square Space at Squarespace.

Saturday, April 14, 2018

Immanentizing the Transcendence

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:15 am

The title refers to the previous two posts.

Related literature —

Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics
(Princeton University Press, 2008)  and . . .

Plato's diamond-in-a-matrix:

Plato's diamond in Jowett's version of the Meno dialogue

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