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Real Beyond Artifice

A professor at Harvard has written about "the urge to seize and display something real beyond artifice." He reportedly died on January 3, 2015. An image from this…

Fourth Right

In memory of Rod Taylor, who reportedly died at 84 on Wednesday, the seventh day of 2015 — And there is  such a thing as a 4-set.

Wrinkles in Time

Rivka Galchen, in a piece mentioned here in June 2010— On Borges:  Imagining the Unwritten Book  "Think of it this way: there is a vast unwritten book that the…

Cameron's Group Theory Notes

In "Notes on Finite Group Theory" by Peter J. Cameron (October 2013), http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~pjc/notes/gt.pdf, some parts are particularly related to the mathematics of the 4×4 square (viewable in various…

Pascal via Curtis

Click image for some background. Shown above is a rearranged version of the Miracle Octad Generator (MOG) of R. T. Curtis ("A new combinatorial approach to M24," Math….

Analogies*

The Moore correspondence may be regarded as an analogy between the 35 partitions of an 8-set into two 4-sets and the 35 lines in the finite projective space…

Étude

  For remarks related by logic, see the square-triangle theorem. For remarks related by synchronicity, see Log24 on the above publication date,  June 15, 2010. According to Google (and…

Tesseract

“… a finite set with n  elements is sometimes called an n-set ….” Tesseract formed from a 4-set— The same 16 subsets or points can be arranged in a 4×4 array that has, when…

Defining Form

(Continued from Epiphany and from yesterday.) Detail from the current American Mathematical Society homepage— Further detail, with a comparison to Dürer's magic square— The three interpenetrating planes in…

Correspondences

Comme de longs échos qui de loin se confondent Dans une ténébreuse et profonde unité…. — Baudelaire, "Correspondances " From "A Four-Color Theorem"— Figure 1 Note that this…