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Point

"….mirando il punto   a cui tutti li tempi son presenti" — Dante, Paradiso , XVII, 17-18  For instance… Click image for higher quality.

Title

The title of yesterday's 11:22 PM post was "The Place of the Lion." This is also the title of a novel by Charles Williams. See, too, Midsummer Eve's…

The Place of the Lion

For C. S. Lewis, who was born on this date in 1898, and Natalie Wood, who died on this date in 1981 "He was accustomed to receiving manuscripts from…

Lines of Symbols

C. P. Snow on G. H. Hardy, in Snow's foreword to A Mathematician's Apology— "One morning early in 1913, he found, among the letters on his breakfast table,…

Conceptual Art

Quotes from the Bremen site http://dada.compart-bremen.de/ —   " 'compArt | center of excellence digital art' is a project at the University of Bremen, Germany. It is dedicated to…

Synesis

From a New York Times  weblog last night— The Reconstruction of Rome By ROBERT BEASER The New York Times , Nov. 27, 2012, 9:00 PM Logic Pro software…

Annals of Religion

Diamond Theory

A pdf of a 1977 three-page article with this title has been added at finitegeometry.org/sc.

Raiders of the Lost Lottery

Today's midday New York Lottery: 444 and 5222. See Deuteronomy  4:44 and 5:2-22.

Counterexample

The non-Coxeter simple reflection group of order 168 is a counterexample to the statement that "Every finite reflection group is a Coxeter group." The counterexample is based on…