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The Omega Matrix

Shown below is the matrix Omega from notes of Richard Evan Schwartz. See also earlier versions (1976-1979) by Steven H. Cullinane. Backstory:  The Schwartz Notes (June 1, 2011), and…

Unplatonic Dialogue

Dialogue from “The Osterman Weekend”— 01:57:22  “Why did he make us try to believe Omega existed?” 01:57:25    …. 01:57:26  “The existence of Omega has not been disproved….

Transgressing the Barriers

“Jung’s archetypes transgress the barriers of time and space.” — From a passage quoted by Fritz Leiber in “The Oldest Soldier,” Fantastic,  May 1960 “… as if they…

Bard Speech

Today’s previous post quoted a professor of English at Bard College. Related material:

The Warrenpoint Puzzle

From a review of Metaphor , by Denis Donoghue (Harvard University Press, 2014)— “Donoghue brings a lovely confessional element to his analysis. As a student, he says, he loved Latin,…

Or Not

Smart Art

Horwich reportedly died on July 21, 2014. For a different perspective on smart art, see the Log24 posts of April 2013.

Mystery Prize

Continued from the Facebook-related post of February 4, 2014: In related news at the website of the American Mathematical Society today: Multimillion-Dollar Minds “The Multimillion-Dollar Minds of 5 Mathematical…

The Diamond-Theorem Correlation

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Zero System

The title phrase (not to be confused with the film 'The Zero Theorem') means, according to the Encyclopedia of Mathematics, a null system , and "A null system is…