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Hermite

A sequel to the quotation here March 8 (Pinter Play) of Joan Aiken's novel The Shadow Guests— Supposing that one's shadow guests are Rosenhain and Göpel (see March 18)… Hans…

Intercultural Whatever

University Diaries on March 22: "An Intercultural Whatever professor at Florida Atlantic University…" (FAU). An obituary in this afternoon's New York Times : Related Log24 posts: Pinter Play (March 8, about…

Rota in a Nutshell

"The proof of Desargues' theorem of projective geometry comes as close as a proof can to the Zen ideal. It can be summarized in two words: 'I see!' " — Gian-Carlo…

Baker on Configurations

The geometry posts of Sunday and Monday have been placed in finitegeometry.org as Classical Geometry in Light of Galois Geometry. Some background: See Baker, Principles of Geometry ,…