Tag: May 6 2005
Fugues "To improvise an eight-part fugue is really beyond human capability." — Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach Order of a projective automorphism group: 168 "There are possibilities…
Involved Trinity symbol (See Sequel.) Trinity symbol by Greg Egan (via John Baez) Involved: "Difficult to understand because of intricacy: byzantine, complex, complicated, convoluted, daedal, Daedalian, elaborate,…
Apocalypse Wow continued From the West Wing time slot: Revelations Episode 4 (first airing: 9 PM ET Wednesday, May 4, 2005) "It's … extremely weird how…
Crystalline "In Francis Ford Coppola's film, Col. Kurtz tells how after his medics inoculated a small village, the Reds chopped off every child's left arm. 'My God, the…
The Fano Plane Revisualized: or, The Eightfold Cube Here is the usual model of the seven points and seven lines (including the circle) of the smallest…