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The Mystic Hexastigm…

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…

Raiders of the Lost Aleph

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…

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 ,…

Nutshell continued

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:…

Coxeter and the Aleph

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…

Brightness at Noon, continued

"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…

Reflections, continued

"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…

Wednesday September 6, 2006

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." —…

Monday September 4, 2006

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…