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Sitting Specially

Some webpages at finitegeometry.org discuss group actions on Sylvester’s duads and synthemes. Those pages are based on the square model of PG(3,2) described in the 1980’s by Steven…

Sunday School:

Rigor  (continued from yesterday)… Mortis See also, from the date of Current's death, High White Noon.

Shakespeare's Rhyme

From Saturday Night Live  last night— Related material from the Log24 post "Now Lens" (March 11, 2011)— Errol Morris in The New York Times  on March 9, 2011—…

Rigor

A New Yorker  weblog post from yesterday, All Souls' Day— "As the mathematician Terence Tao has written, math study has three stages: the 'pre-rigorous,' in which basic rules…

Quarter to Three…

… Behind the Green Door Click for image source. Related material— Door Prize for Larry Bloch, who died on Sunday, October 28. Bloch founded the Wetlands Preserve rock…

By Candlelight

"Seven is Heaven, Eight is a Gate" — Memory rhyme For Rebekah Gay— Click for image source.

For All Souls' Day

From this journal yesterday (All Saints' Day)— "But, I asked, is there a difference between fiction and nonfiction? 'Not much,' she said, shrugging." — New Yorker  profile of tesseract…

Smart News

The late Arthur R. Jensen was an expert on IQ testing. From a Log24 post on Oct. 22, 2012, the reported date of his death— Related material — "IT" in A Wrinkle…

Time and Chance (continued)

For clergymen who embrace Trudeau's "Story Theory of Truth" (see last evening's 7:20 PM post on geometry and A Wrinkle in Time )… Here are two meditations suggested by…

Theories of Truth

A review of two theories of truth described by a clergyman, Richard J. Trudeau, in The Non-Euclidean Revolution— The Story Theory of Truth: "But, I asked, is there…