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Also from 2010, in this journal: The Worst Christmas Pageant Ever.
“The relevance of a geometric theorem is determined by what the theorem tells us about space, and not by the eventual difficulty of the proof.” — Gian-Carlo Rota discussing the…
Thanks to the Museum of Modern Art for pointing out a new emphasis on design in U.S. Army Field Manual 5-0. MoMA supplies a link to an article from May…
The previous post told how user58512 at math.stackexchange.com sought in 2013 a geometric representation of Q8 , the quaternion group. He ended up displaying an illustration that very possibly was drawn,…
The title refers to a Scientific American weblog item discussed here on May 31, 2014: Some closely related material appeared here on Dec. 30, 2011: A version of the…
Galois matrices, the subject of the previous post, are of course not new. See, for instance, Steinberg in 1951: The American Mathematical Society reports that Steinberg died on…
The webpage Galois.us, on Galois matrices , has been created as a starting point for remarks on the algebra (as opposed to the geometry) underlying the rings of matrices mentioned in…
The title was suggested by a post on The Piano and by the dimensions of an image in this morning’s previous post: 404 x 211 pixels, suggesting 4/04,…
Jungle music suggested by yesterday’s Black Widow Club post, by the midnight post that followed, and by a May 24 death: