Synchronology check:
See too the previous post.
Saturday, October 31, 2020
Meanwhile . . .
Comments Off on Meanwhile . . .
Friday, October 30, 2020
Devil’s Night Art Notes
Comments Off on Devil’s Night Art Notes
Rare Shells and Stratagems
Patricia Lockwood quoting Nabokov —
‘I saw the board as a square pool of limpid water
with rare shells and stratagems rosily visible
upon the smooth tessellated bottom, which
to my confused adversary was all ooze and
squid-cloud.’ Conceptions of space, dimension,
movement, strategy.
— London Review of Books ,
Vol. 42 No. 21 · 5 November 2020
Related images —
From this journal on October 26:
From this journal this morning:
A dancer forms a heart shape with her hands. Finishing the gesture,
she recovers the point missing from the bottom of the above shield . . .
Comments Off on Rare Shells and Stratagems
Game for Devil’s Night in an Election Year
Comments Off on Game for Devil’s Night in an Election Year
Dance of the Qubits
Comments Off on Dance of the Qubits
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Images in posts are down.
The service hosting my Log24 images is down. I do not know
when it will be up again.*
Meanwhile, a WordPress Media workaround image —
Related narrative for a Code Girl —
“Tickle: Change, Shift, Reveal.”
* Update at 5 AM Oct. 30: Images are back.
To celebrate their return . . . .
“Dance Practice Video,” still and detail.
Comments Off on Images in posts are down.
The Art of the Possible: Weyl as Magister Ludi ?
Johann A. Makowsky recently reviewed Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics
by Nina Engelhardt. Engelhardt is a Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin at the
University of Stuttgart. Makowsky is a professor emeritus of the computer science
department at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology …
The quotation below, by Makowsky not Engelhardt, is from Notices of the
American Mathematical Society , November 2020 (Vol. 67, No. 10, p. 1594) —
"Hermann Weyl was known for his inspiring lectures,
celebrating mathematics as a performing art. It is then likely
that he was both the model for the magister ludi celebrating
the Glass Bead Game, and the source of Hesse’s awareness of
modern mathematics as the art of the possible, rather than
the science of true nature."
Possibly .
Consider also the diamond as Spielraum .
Comments Off on The Art of the Possible: Weyl as Magister Ludi ?
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Country Requiem
/ Source: Reuters
By Variety
By Variety
“Country music singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver,
whom Willie Nelson once called ‘the greatest living
songwriter,’ died Wednesday at the age of 81.”
whom Willie Nelson once called ‘the greatest living
songwriter,’ died Wednesday at the age of 81.”
Comments Off on Country Requiem
“You say I am repeating” — T. S. Eliot
From the previous post:
“… all things, whether below or above appearance,
are one and that it is only through reality, in which
they are reflected or, it may be, joined together,
that we can reach them.”
See also “The Bond with Reality.”
Comments Off on “You say I am repeating” — T. S. Eliot
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Japanese Bed*
The reported death on Monday of the Random House editor of the 1996
book Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics suggests a search in this journal
for "primary colors." From that search, some non-political quotations —
|
From “The Relations between Poetry and Painting,” by Wallace Stevens:“The theory of poetry, that is to say, the total of the theories of poetry, often seems to become in time a mystical theology or, more simply, a mystique. The reason for this must by now be clear. The reason is the same reason why the pictures in a museum of modern art often seem to become in time a mystical aesthetic, a prodigious search of appearance, as if to find a way of saying and of establishing that all things, whether below or above appearance, are one and that it is only through reality, in which they are reflected or, it may be, joined together, that we can reach them. Under such stress, reality changes from substance to subtlety, a subtlety in which it was natural for Cézanne to say: ‘I see planes bestriding each other and sometimes straight lines seem to me to fall’ or ‘Planes in color. . . . The colored area where shimmer the souls of the planes, in the blaze of the kindled prism, the meeting of planes in the sunlight.’ The conversion of our Lumpenwelt went far beyond this. It was from the point of view of another subtlety that Klee could write: ‘But he is one chosen that today comes near to the secret places where original law fosters all evolution. And what artist would not establish himself there where the organic center of all movement in time and space—which he calls the mind or heart of creation— determines every function.’ Conceding that this sounds a bit like sacerdotal jargon, that is not too much to allow to those that have helped to create a new reality, a modern reality, since what has been created is nothing less.”
|
* Title suggested in part by Monday evening's post Annals of Artspeak
and the related Microsoft lockscreen photo credit —
.
Comments Off on Japanese Bed*
“To Illustrate My Last Remark”*
* Song lyric, soundtrack album of
“Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil“
Comments Off on “To Illustrate My Last Remark”*
Monday, October 26, 2020
Set + Design
Comments Off on Set + Design
Theory
These news items suggest a review —
The above “Pynchon’s Paranoid History” page number appeared
in this journal on Groundhog Day, 2015 —
David Justice on a Zeta-related theory —
Comments Off on Theory
Ay Que Bonito
See the above title in this journal.
Related material — The ad where I first encountered
the TV series “A Discovery of Witches.”
See too a related map.
Comments Off on Ay Que Bonito
Sunday, October 25, 2020
A Tune for Bojangles
Comments Off on A Tune for Bojangles
Saturday, October 24, 2020
Switchin’ the Positions*
“C24 is the list of codewords of the extended
binary Golay code C24. Each codeword is expressed
by a subset of the set M of the positions [1, . . . , 24]
of MOG.”
— From Shimada’s notes on computational data at
http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~shimada/
preprints/Edge/PaperEdge/compdataEdge.pdf .
* Related material — A new Ariana Grande video and . . .
a recent digital artwork, “Code Girl,” with accompanying story —
Comments Off on Switchin’ the Positions*
The Galois Tesseract
Stanley E. Payne and J. A. Thas in 1983* (previous post) —
“… a 4×4 grid together with
the affine lines on it is AG(2,4).”
Payne and Thas of course use their own definition
of affine lines on a grid.
Actually, a 4×4 grid together with the affine lines on it
is, viewed in a different way, not AG(2,4) but rather AG(4,2).
For AG(4,2) in the proper context, see
Affine Groups on Small Binary Spaces and
The Galois Tesseract.
* And 26 years later, in 2009.
Comments Off on The Galois Tesseract
Grids
Wikipedia on what has been called “the doily” —
“The smallest non-trivial generalized quadrangle
is GQ(2,2), whose representation* has been dubbed
‘the doily’ by Stan Payne in 1973.”
A later publication relates the doily to grids.
From Finite Generalized Quadrangles , by Stanley E. Payne
and J. A. Thas, December 1983, at researchgate.net, pp. 81-82—
“Then the lines … define a 3×3 grid G (i.e. a grid
consisting of 9 points and 6 lines).”
. . . .
“So we have shown that the grid G can completed [sic ]
in a unique way to a grid with 8 lines and 16 points.”
. . . .
“A 4×4 grid defines a linear subspace
of the 2−(64,4,1) design, i.e. a 4×4 grid
together with the affine lines on it is AG(2,4).”
A more graphic approach from this journal —
Click the image for further details.
* This wording implies that GQ(2,2) has a unique
visual representation. It does not. See inscape .
Comments Off on Grids
Friday, October 23, 2020
Temple Bell
The title refers to a man called by John Baez
“The infamous pseudohistorian Eric Temple Bell.”
(See my post The Magpie.)
Today the American Mathematical Society (AMS) has
an obituary for Donald Babbitt (1936-2020), who
reportedly died on October 10.
Babbitt is the co-author of an article on Bell from the
June/July 2013 AMS Notices .
Comments Off on Temple Bell
Language Game: The Doily Curse
Comments Off on Language Game: The Doily Curse
.jpg){kind=link}
News from Saint Luke’s Day
Midrash for the late Harold Bloom,
author of The Daemon Knows —
It is perhaps not irrelevant that the phrase "on Saturday" in the
Los Angeles Times of Sunday, October 18, 2020, refers to the
preceding day — October 17, 2020. See too that date here.
Related material —
— November 2020
Notices of the American Mathematical Society
For fans of mathematics and narrative —
Some may fancy Bloom as a dybbuk (cf, "A Serious Man") turning
the page in the article above to the next page, 1590 —
Comments Off on News from Saint Luke’s Day