Tag: Diamond Theorem Correlation

Words and Images

The words:  "symplectic polarity"— The images: The Natural Symplectic Polarity in PG(3,2) Symmetry Invariance in a Diamond Ring The Diamond-Theorem Correlation Picturing the Smallest Projective 3-Space Quilt Block Designs

High and Low Concepts

Steven Pressfield on April 25, 2012: What exactly is High Concept? Let’s start with its opposite, low concept. Low concept stories are personal, idiosyncratic, ambiguous, often European.  “Well,…

Symplectic Structure…

In the Miracle Octad Generator (MOG): The above details from a one-page note of April 26, 1986, refer to the Miracle Octad Generator of R. T. Curtis, as…

Symplectic Structure continued

Some background for the part of the 2002 paper by Dolgachev and Keum quoted here on January 17, 2014 — Related material in this journal (click image for posts) —

Syntactic/Symplectic

(Continued from August 9, 2014.) Syntactic: Symplectic: "Visual forms— lines, colors, proportions, etc.— are just as capable of articulation , i.e. of complex combination, as words. But the laws…

Symplectic Structure*

From Gotay and Isenberg, "The Symplectization of Science," Gazette des Mathématiciens  54, 59-79 (1992): "… what is the origin of the unusual name 'symplectic'? …. Its mathematical usage…

The Diamond-Theorem Correlation

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Zero System

The title phrase (not to be confused with the film 'The Zero Theorem') means, according to the Encyclopedia of Mathematics, a null system , and "A null system is…

Vide

“The relevance of a geometric theorem is determined by what the theorem tells us about space, and not by the eventual difficulty of the proof.” — Gian-Carlo Rota discussing the…