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For Emil Artin

(On His Dies Natalis )… An Exceptional Isomorphism Between Geometric and Combinatorial Steiner Triple Systems Underlies  the Octads of the M24 Steiner System S(5, 8, 24). This is asserted in an excerpt from…  "The…

Review

For Josefine Lyche, artist of High White Noon — Thursday, October 10, 2013 Mr. Noon Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 12:00 PM  See also "Finishing Up at Noon," "S in…

Annals of Literature

(This morning's Text and Pretext, continued) "… a reality that only my notes can provide."     — Kinbote in Nabokov's novel Pale Fire Click the above remarks on screws…

Text and Pretext

The above image is a pre-text. For details, see the text .

Gute Frage

A scene from the 2002 film Max— (Click for a video on the film.) Related material— This journal, posts of Sept. 8-9, 2013. Some backstory— Outsider Art, and an obituary…

Bing Bang Theory

Microsoft in 2009 on its new search engine name— "We like Bing because it sounds off in our heads when we think about that moment of discovery and…

A Hand for the Band

"How about another hand for the band? They work real hard for it. The Cherokee Cowboys, ladies and gentlemen." — Ray Price, video, "Danny Boy Mid 80's Live"…

Questions of Faith

"Mr. Nissenson took years to create alternative worlds in pursuing questions of faith in books like 'The Tree of Life.'" — NY Times  obituaries index this evening "O fearful…

The Seventh Square

The above image is from Geometry of the 4×4 Square. (The link "Visible Mathematics" in today's previous post, Quartet, led to a post linked to that page, among others.) Note that…

Quartet

Happy Beethoven's Birthday. Related material:  Abel 2005 and, more generally, Abel. See also Visible Mathematics.