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