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Geometric Incarnation

The  Kummer 166  configuration  is the configuration of sixteen 6-sets within a 4×4 square array of points in which each 6-set is determined by one of the 16 points of the array…

Mathematics and Narrative (continued)

Mathematics: A review of posts from earlier this month — Wednesday, September 4, 2013 Moonshine Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 4:00 PM Unexpected connections between areas of mathematics previously thought…

Y*

"With all due respect…" * Related thought:  "When you come to a fork in the road…"

Bugs

Midrash:  Butterfly and Bee.

Yahrzeit

For the late Steve Sabol.

Review

An LA obituary online yesterday suggests a review of Kabbalah in this journal. See also the final link in last weekend's Log24 post Sunday Shul.

Occupy Space

(Continued) Google News this morning — For some remarks in greater depth, see  "In the Neighborhood of Mathematical Space," by Karen Shenfeld (1993).

One Knight in Bangkok

Chess  lyrics, "Quartet" — "A model of decorum and tranquillity Become like any other sport A battleground for rival ideologies To slug it out with glee" Communist leader Chin…

A Word to the Wise

Gamalog.

Fleur de Derrida*

The above news item seems to exemplify Baudelaire's (and Murdoch's) notion of contingency — "La modernité, c’est le transitoire, le fugitif, le contingent, la moitié de l’art, dont l’autre…