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Or: The Nutshell What about Pascal? For some background on Pascal's mathematics, not his wager, see… Richmond, H. W., "On the Figure of Six Points in Space of…
See Coxeter + Aleph in this journal. Epigraph to "The Aleph," a 1945 story by Borges: "O God! I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself…
"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…
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 ,…
For the new Jesuit pope (see previous post) Now among Log24 posts tagged "Khora" is one from July 15, 2010, dealing with a book called Deconstruction in a Nutshell:…
In a nutshell — Epigraph to "The Aleph," a 1945 story by Borges: O God! I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a King of…
"What exactly was Point Omega?" This is Robert Wright in Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny. Wright is discussing not the novel Point Omega by Don DeLillo, but…
"The eye you see him with is the same eye with which he sees you." – Father Egan on page 333 of Robert Stone's A Flag for Sunrise…
Hamlet's Transformation "O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams." —…
In a Nutshell: The Seed "The symmetric group S6 of permutations of 6 objects is the only symmetric group with an outer automorphism…. This outer automorphism can…