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Sunday, March 9, 2014

The Story Creeps Up

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:01 pm

For Women’s History Month —

Conclusion of “The Storyteller,” a story
by Cynthia Zarin about author Madeleine L’Engle—

See also the exercise on the Miracle Octad Generator (MOG) at the end of
the previous post, and remarks on the MOG by Emily Jennings (non -fiction)
on All Saints’ Day, 2012 (the date the L’Engle quote was posted here).

Hesse’s Table

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 9:00 pm

From “Quartic Curves and Their Bitangents,” by
Daniel Plaumann, Bernd Sturmfels, and Cynthia Vinzant,
arXiv:1008.4104v2  [math.AG] 10 Jan 2011 —

The table mentioned (from 1855) is…

Exercise: Discuss the relationship, if any, to
the Miracle Octad Generator of R. T. Curtis.

At Play in the Fields of Brazil

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:00 pm

From Facebook, a photo from the Feast of St. Francis, 2013:

Neantro Saavedra-Rivano, author of the 1976 paper  “Finite
Geometries in the Theory of Theta Characteristics,”  in Brasilia—

On the same date, art from Inception  and from Diamonds Studio
in Brazil —

Sermon

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:00 am

On Theta Characteristics
IMAGE- Saavedra-Rivano, 'Finite Geometries in the Theory of Theta Characteristics' (1976)

— From Zentralblatt-math.org.  8 PM ET update:  See also a related search.

IMAGE- Saavedra-Rivano, Ph.D. U. de Paris 1972, advisor Grothendieck

Some may prefer a more politically correct— and simpler— sermon.

Background for the simpler sermon: Quilt Geometry.

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