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Schoolgirl Problem

The star of the new film "Chappie" is on tour.

Expanding the Spielraum

(Continued from Feb. 3, 2015) The above artist  Wolf Barth is not the same person as the mathematician  Wolf Barth quoted in the  previous post.  For further background…

Slow Art, Continued

The title of the previous post, "Slow Art," is a phrase of the late art critic Robert Hughes. Example from mathematics: Göpel tetrads as subsets of a 4×4 square…

Slow Art

Slowness is sometimes in the eye of the beholder. See this journal on Slow Art Day 2015. Related material: Epistemic States in this journal.

Omega Matrix

See that phrase in this journal. See also last night's post. The Greek letter Ω is customarily used to denote a set that is acted upon by a group….

New Image of PG(3,2)

… was added to the Wikipedia article Finite geometry. (Shown above is a slightly newer image, changed to reflect   the Wikipedia article's remarks on the schoolgirl problem.)

The Raising of Hell

On a former LA Times  editor who reportedly died today at 73 — "Richard Masland, who grew up with Carroll, described his friend as a mediocre student who enjoyed midnight raids on…

Autistic Enchantments

( Continued ) Log24  on January 31, 2015 —   Spellbound (continued) Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 3:33 AM  The New York Times  this morning, in an obituary for a maker of crossword…

Art Direction 101

The Holy Field

( A Chinese designation for the 3×3 square )