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The Story Creeps Up

For Women’s History Month — Conclusion of “The Storyteller,” a story by Cynthia Zarin about author Madeleine L’Engle— See also the exercise on the Miracle Octad Generator (MOG) at the…

Hesse's Table

From “Quartic Curves and Their Bitangents,” by Daniel Plaumann, Bernd Sturmfels, and Cynthia Vinzant, arXiv:1008.4104v2  [math.AG] 10 Jan 2011 — The table mentioned (from 1855) is… Exercise: Discuss the relationship,…

At Play in the Fields of Brazil

From Facebook, a photo from the Feast of St. Francis, 2013: Neantro Saavedra-Rivano, author of the 1976 paper  “Finite Geometries in the Theory of Theta Characteristics,”  in Brasilia— On…

Sermon

On Theta Characteristics — From Zentralblatt-math.org.  8 PM ET update:  See also a related search. Some may prefer a more politically correct— and simpler— sermon. Background for the…

Women's History Month

For the Princeton Class of 1905 — Joyce Carol Oates Meets Emily Dickinson. Oates — "It is an afternoon in autumn, near dusk. The western sky is a spider’s web of translucent…

Conwell Heptads in Eastern Europe

“Charting the Real Four-Qubit Pauli Group via Ovoids of a Hyperbolic Quadric of PG(7,2),” by Metod Saniga, Péter Lévay and Petr Pracna, arXiv:1202.2973v2 [math-ph] 26 Jun 2012 — P….

Field Dream

A field in China — The following link was suggested by today’s previous post and by the ABC TV series “Resurrection” scheduled to start at 9 PM ET Sunday, March 9, 2014 —…

Kummer Varieties

The Dream of the Expanded Field continues… From Klein's 1893 Lectures on Mathematics — "The varieties introduced by Wirtinger may be called Kummer varieties…." — E. Spanier, 1956 From…

ART WARS (continued)

See “But is it Art?,” linked to here and here —

The Old Well*

See posts tagged The Well. Related material:  Artist Joseph Kosuth, who pictured the dictionary definition of “nothing” shown in the index of today’s LA Times  obituaries, and a Chinese film director,…