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Quaternion Group Models:

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…

Combinatorial Matrix Classes

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…

Sils-Maria

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…

Free-Floating Signs

“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…

Visual Structure

“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 Tetrahedral Model of PG(3,2)

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…

Through the Vanishing Point*

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…

Play

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…

Cube Space

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….

Un-Rubik Cube

See also Cube Symmetry Planes  in this journal.