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Pursuit of Gestalt*

The art above is by the Copenhagen studio Hvass & Hannibal. For a photo of the artists, see a webpage on Beijing Design Week 2011. Hvass and Hannibal were…

When Death Tells a Story…

See the title phrase and "working backward" in this journal.

The Möbius Hypercube

The incidences of points and planes in the Möbius 84  configuration (8 points and 8 planes, with 4 points on each plane and 4 planes on each point), were described by Coxeter in…

Hirzebruch

(Continued from July 16, 2014.) Some background from Wikipedia: "Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch  ForMemRS[2]  (17 October 1927 – 27 May 2012) was a German mathematician, working in the fields of topology,  complex…

Brouwer on the Galois Tesseract

Yesterday's post suggests a review of the following — Andries Brouwer, preprint, 1982: "The Witt designs, Golay codes and Mathieu groups" (unpublished as of 2013) Pages 8-9: Substructures…

Gallucci's Möbius Configuration

From H. S. M. Coxeter's 1950 paper "Self-Dual Configurations and Regular Graphs,"  a 4×4 array and a more perspicuous rearrangement— (Click image to enlarge.)  The above rearrangement brings Coxeter's…

Metamorphosis

In memory of a film enthusiast who reportedly died on February 23, 2015: "We wanted the film to go through a very subtle and nuanced visual metamorphosis."  — Nenad…

The Forking (continued)

A film — A weblog post —

The Forking

(Continued) An article in the new April issue of Notices of the American Mathmatical Society  suggests a search for connections between the Calkin-Wilf tree and the modular group….

Style

Compare and contrast yesterday's quotation from Jeffrey Kipnis with the following quotation from Robert Bringhurst — Related material — Jews on Style.