Tag: The Four-Point Plane

What "As" Is

or:  Combinatorics (Rota) as Philosophy (Heidegger) as Geometry (Me) "Dasein’s full existential structure is constituted by the 'as-structure' or 'well-joined structure' of the rift-design*…" — Gary Williams, post…

Window, continued

"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!  I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen,…

Window

"Examples are the stained-glass   windows of knowledge." — Nabokov Related material: Thomas Wolfe and the Kernel of Eternity

Midsummer Noon

Geometry Simplified (a projective space) The above finite projective space is the simplest nontrivial example of a Galois geometry (i.e., a finite geometry with coordinates in a finite…