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Gitterkrieg*

  Wednesday, March 13, 2013 Blackboard Jungle Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 8:00 AM  From a review in the April 2013 issue of Notices of the American Mathematical Society— "The author clearly is passionate…

Culture War

From a NY Times  obituary for an Arkansas poet, Miller Williams, who reportedly died at 84 on New Year's Day — The title of Lucinda Williams’s most recent album, "Down Where the…

Fifteen for 2015

The title refers to a set of fifteen Göpel tetrads that form the lines of a Cremona-Richmond configuration .   "Spiel ist nicht Spielerei.  Es hat hohen Ernst  und tiefe Bedeutung."…

New Year's Greeting from Franz Kafka

An image that led off the year-end review yesterday in the weblog of British combinatorialist Peter J. Cameron: See also this  weblog's post final post of 2014, with a rectangular array illustrating the six…

Dodecahedron Model of PG(2,5)

Recent posts tagged Sagan Dodecahedron  mention an association between that Platonic solid and the 5×5 grid. That grid, when extended by the six points on a "line at infinity,"…

Cube of Ultron

The Blacklist “Pilot” Review "There is an element of camp to this series though. Spader is quite gleefully channeling Anthony Hopkins, complete with being a well educated, elegant…

More To Be Done

   The Ball-Weiner date above, 5 September 2011, suggests a review of this journal on that date — "Think of a DO NOT ENTER pictogram, a circle with a…

Platonic Analogy

(Five by Five continued) As the 3×3 grid underlies the order-3 finite projective plane, whose 13 points may be modeled by the 13 symmetry axes of the cube, so the 5×5…

Sermon

"In digital circuit theory, combinational logic  (sometimes also referred to as time-independent logic) is a type of digital logic which is implemented by Boolean circuits, where the output is a pure function of the present input…

Narrative Metaphysics

From "Guardians of the Galaxy" — "Then the Universe exploded into existence…" For those who prefer a more traditional approach : See also Symplectic Structure and Stevens's Rock.