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The ninefold square, the eightfold cube, and monkeys. For posts on the models above, see quaternion in this journal. For the monkeys, see "Nothing Is More Fun than…
A book by this title, Richard A. Brualdi’s Combinatorial Matrix Classes , was published by Cambridge University Press in 2006: For some related remarks, see The Counter (March…
Nietzsche in Switzerland — “In August 1884, he wrote to Resa von Schirnhofer: ‘Here one can live well, in this strong, bright atmosphere, here where nature is amazingly mild…
“You’ve got to pick up every stitch…” — Donovan, song on closing credits of To Die For “…’Supersymmetry’ was originally written specifically for Her ….” — Pitchfork “Eventually we see snow…
“Chaos is order yet undeciphered.” — The novel The Double , by José Saramago, on which the recent film "Enemy" was based For Louise Bourgeois — a post from the date…
The page of Whitehead linked to this morning suggests a review of Polster's tetrahedral model of the finite projective 3-space PG(3,2) over the two-element Galois field GF(2). The…
Marshall McLuhan in "Annie Hall" — "You know nothing of my work." Related material — "I need a photo opportunity I want a shot at redemption Don't want to end…
From a recreational-mathematics weblog yesterday: “This appears to be the arts section of the post, so I’ll leave Martin Probert’s page on The Survival, Origin and Mathematics of String Figures…
A sequel to this afternoon's Rubik Quote: "The Cube was born in 1974 as a teaching tool to help me and my students better understand space and 3D….
See also Cube Symmetry Planes in this journal.