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"It is as if one were to condense all trends of present day mathematics onto a single finite structure…." — Gian-Carlo Rota, foreword to A Source Book in…
"… geometry will draw the soul towards truth…." — Plato Or not.
The previous post's link to The Lindbergh Manifesto and Thursday's post on Basel-born artist Wolf Barth suggest the following — See as well a June 14 New York Times piece…
There is such a thing as geometry.* * Proposition adapted from A Wrinkle in Time , by Madeleine L'Engle.
The title of the previous post, "Slow Art," is a phrase of the late art critic Robert Hughes. Example from mathematics: Göpel tetrads as subsets of a 4×4 square…
See that phrase in this journal. See also last night's post. The Greek letter Ω is customarily used to denote a set that is acted upon by a group….
… was added to the Wikipedia article Finite geometry. (Shown above is a slightly newer image, changed to reflect the Wikipedia article's remarks on the schoolgirl problem.)
( A Chinese designation for the 3×3 square )
“Was ist Raum, wie können wir ihn erfassen und gestalten?” Walter Gropius, The Theory and Organization of the Bauhaus (1923) This post was suggested by the Bauhaus song "Bela Lugosi's…
Omega is a Greek letter, Ω , used in mathematics to denote a set on which a group acts. For instance, the affine group AGL(3,2) is a group of 1,344…