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Sunday, January 10, 2021

“Glasgow, 1937”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:04 pm

The location in the title is the opening scene of the new version
of "All Creatures Great and Small."  The year  in the title suggests
a look at (for instance) The Pentagram Papers.

A "support provided by" credit suggests some related images —

A Scotland-related post: The Blue Path and the Red Path
(Log24, Aug. 24, 2014).
Wendelboe's games included chess sets.
See as well a related purchase from further north on the same block.

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Low-Hanging Fruit
for the National Comedy Center

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:41 pm


Not so low-hanging:

A Midrash for Jack Benny — Diamond Theory in 1937.

Friday, February 13, 2026

Cube Space

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:37 am

Theorem:

Some large natural symmetry groups of the sets of 8, 16, 32, or 64 points
in Euclidean space that are located at the vertices  of a cube in 3, 4, 5. or 6
dimensions are generated by,  respectively,  arbitrary permutations of
parallel edges  or parallel faces  or parallel cubes  or parallel hypercubes .

(For an example, see Diamond Theory in 1937.)

Illustration of related group actions:

Affine groups on small binary spaces

Monday, February 9, 2026

The Tesseract Theorem

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 6:01 pm

The natural symmetry group of the 16 vertices of a tesseract
is generated by arbitrary permutations of parallel faces and
is of order 322,560.

(This is an abstract version of the Cullinane diamond theorem.)

For the corresponding cube theorem, see Cube Space.

Some backstory . . .

Monday, August 4, 2025

Tesseract Art

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:45 am

Some background for the NotebookLM video "Tiles to Deep Space" —

See posts tagged Quantum Tesseract Theorem, Multiplane Structure,
and March 26-29, 2006.

(The diamond theorem on a 4×4 square array involves arbitrary 
permutations of rows, columns, and quadrants. These structures
correspond to sets of four parallel hypercube faces, and other such
sets, though less easily pictured, might be used instead.)

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10A/100619-TesseractAnd4x4.gif

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Pieces of April . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:00 am

For Red Riding Hood — Bandini in Vienna.

"Meanwhile, back in 1937 . . ." —  Weyl in Vienna.

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

The Blackboard Jungle Book …

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:28 pm

Continues.

Ratan Naval Tata was born on Dec. 28, 1937, in Bombay, now Mumbai, during the British Raj. His family belonged to the Parsi religion, a small Zoroastrian community that originated in Persia, fled persecution by the Muslim majority there centuries ago and found refuge in India. Mr. Tata became a leader of that community.

New York Times  obituary on 9 October 2024

See also theta functions in this journal.

For those who prefer narratives to mathematics . . .

Tiger at the Fire Temple

Friday, October 13, 2023

Turn, Turn, Turn

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 3:06 am

The conclusion of a Hungarian political figure's obituary in
tonight's online New York Times, written by Clay Risen

"A quietly religious man, he spent his last years translating
works dealing with Roman Catholic canon law."

This  journal on the Hungarian's date of death, October 8,
a Sunday, dealt in part with the submission to Wikipedia of
the following brief article . . . and its prompt rejection.

The Cullinane diamond theorem is a theorem
about the Galois geometry underlying
the Miracle Octad Generator of R. T. Curtis.[1]

The theorem also explains symmetry properties of the
sort of chevron or diamond designs often found on quilts.

Reference

1. Cullinane diamond theorem at
the Encyclopedia of Mathematics

Some quotations I prefer to Catholic canon law —

Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Philosophical Investigations  (1953)

97. Thought is surrounded by a halo.
—Its essence, logic, presents an order,
in fact the a priori order of the world:
that is, the order of possibilities * ,
which must be common to both world and thought.
But this order, it seems, must be
utterly simple . It is prior  to all experience,
must run through all experience;
no empirical cloudiness or uncertainty can be
allowed to affect it ——It must rather be of
the purest crystal. But this crystal does not appear
as an abstraction; but as something concrete,
indeed, as the most concrete,
as it were the hardest  thing there is.

* See the post Wittgenstein's Diamond.

Related language in Łukasiewicz (1937)—

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10B/101127-LukasiewiczAdamantine.jpg

See as well Diamond Theory in 1937.

Sunday, August 6, 2023

American Pie

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:48 pm

Friday, September 23, 2022

Monday, July 25, 2022

Homage to Patagonia

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:25 pm

In memory of a political figure who reportedly died on Sunday —

Wm. F. Buckley as Archimedes, moving the world with a giant pen as lever. The pen's point is applied to southern South America.

Note the approximate target of the holy nib.

Midnight Clear

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:00 am

See the title in this journal.

Related material — A Log24 search for "in 1937."

Thursday, November 25, 2021

Saying Grace

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:06 pm

Personally, I prefer  To Catch a Thief —

“Breast or Thigh”?

Thursday, September 2, 2021

Devs Continues.

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:50 pm

Wikipedia

" In 2017, Milioti appeared in the fourth season of
the sci-fi anthology show Black Mirror in the episode
"USS Callister" as Nanette Cole, a newly employed
game developer whose digital recreation becomes
trapped in a virtual simulator game.[16] "

16.  Strause, Jackie (December 30, 2017). 
"'Black Mirror': Cristin Milioti on Battling a "Misogynistic Bully"
in Empowering Space Epic"
The Hollywood Reporter.
Retrieved June 22, 2021.

Monday, June 21, 2021

The Bauhaus Dance

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:04 pm

"If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.”
— Henry David Thoreau

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11B/110714-BauhausRoof.jpg

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Otro Idioma

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:31 am

See as well this  journal on the above Sundance photo date —

“We keep coming back and coming back
To the real: to the hotel instead of the hymns . . . .”

— Wallace Stevens, quoted in posts tagged Portal1937

Update of 12:35 PM ET the same day —

Monday, February 22, 2021

Friday, December 18, 2020

Body Space — Annals of Corporate Law

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:13 pm

In memory of Ralph Winter and Barbara Windsor.

See also . . .

Personally, I prefer  To Catch a Thief

“Breast or Thigh”?

Sunday, November 1, 2020

Art Theory

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:37 pm

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
— Henry David Thoreau

Between, or:  Interality Illustrated   (according to Sherald)

“We live in between the lines;
in between the cracks . . . .
That’s where the bonds are formed. ”

Amy Sherald

Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Águila

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:30 pm
"We learned so much
about singing from each other
because you get to sort of
be them for a second
when you're shadowing
them in harmony.
It's like getting on an eagle
and getting to see the world
through that eagle's experience."

Read more: https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/
movie_script.php?movie=linda-ronstadt-the-sound-of-my-voice

See also Aguila de Oro.

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Stevens at 140

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:38 am

Poet Wallace Stevens was born 140 years ago today.

For another 140, see Diamond Theory in 1937.

For some notes related to a Stevens poem from 1937,
see "arrowy, still strings" in this journal.

Friday, July 12, 2019

Holloway Today

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:23 am

"The area is home to many artists and people who work in
 the media, including many journalists, writers and professionals 
working in film and television." — Wikipedia

Tusen takk to My Square Lady —

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

CV

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:01 pm

The title abbreviates* that of a collection of Wittgenstein's remarks:

Ludwig Wittgenstein — Culture and Value 
Revised Edition, Wiley-Blackwell (1998)

Showing 20 results for spirit

page 18, rubble & finally a heap of ashes; but spirits will hover over the ashes. MS 107 229:

page 18, Page 5 Only something supernatural can expre

page 20, contemplating it from above in its†c flight.†

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page 21, and American civilization. The spirit of this civilization the expression of

page 21, day†h fascism & socialism, is a spirit that is alien & uncongenial†i to the au

page 21, he Page Break 9 can work in the spirit of the whole, and his strength can with

page 21, straight for what is concrete. Which is chara

page 22, danger in a long foreword is that the spirit of a book has to be evident in the book

page 22, It is all one to me whether the typical weste

page 23, a great temptation to want to make the spirit explicit. MS 109 204: 6-7.11.1930 Page

page 23, readers that will be clear just from the fact

page 28, Foggy day. Grey autumn haunts us. Laughter se

page 42, If one wanted to characterize the essence of

page 51, attention from what matters.) The Spirit puts what is essential, essential for y

page 51, how far all this is exactly in the spirit of Kierkegaard.) MS 119 151: 22.10.1937

page 51, something feminine about this outlook?) MS 11

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The above "spirit guide" was suggested by yesterday's post
on Knuth as Yoda and by the paper in today's previous post, 
"Shadowhunter Tales."

This  post's title, "CV," is from . . .

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

The Pentagram Papers

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:40 pm

(Continued)

From a Log24 post of March 4, 2008 —

SINGER, ISAAC:
"Are Children the Ultimate Literary Critics?"
— Top of the News 29 (Nov. 1972): 32-36.

"Sets forth his own aims in writing for children and laments
'slice of life' and chaos in children's literature. Maintains that
children like good plots, logic, and clarity, and that they
have a concern for 'so-called eternal questions.'"

— An Annotated Listing of Criticism
by Linnea Hendrickson

"She returned the smile, then looked across the room to
her youngest brother, Charles Wallace, and to their father,
who were deep in concentration, bent over the model
they were building of a tesseract: the square squared,
and squared again: a construction of the dimension of time."

— A Swiftly Tilting Planet,
by Madeleine L'Engle

Cover of 'A Swiftly Tilting Planet' and picture of tesseract

For "the dimension of time," see A Fold in TimeTime Fold,
and Diamond Theory in 1937

A Swiftly Tilting Planet  is a fantasy for children 
set partly in Vespugia, a fictional country bordered by
Chile and Argentina.

Ibid.

The pen's point:

Wm. F. Buckley as Archimedes, moving the world with a giant pen as lever. The pen's point is applied to southern South America.
John Trever, Albuquerque Journal, 2/29/08

Note the figure on the cover of National Review  above —

A related figure from Pentagram Design

See, more generally,  Isaac Singer  in this  journal.

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Lost Horizon

Filed under: G-Notes,General,Geometry — m759 @ 11:29 am

Related material —

The following image in this journal

  .

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

The 35-Year Wait

Filed under: G-Notes,General,Geometry — m759 @ 11:17 am

From the Web this morning —

A different 35-year wait:

A monograph of August 1976 —

Thirty-five years later, in a post of August 2011, "Coordinated Steps" —

'The Seven Dwarfs and their Diamond Mine

"SEE HEAR READ" — Walt Disney Productions

Some other diamond-mine productions —

 Image -- The cast of 1937's 'King Solomon's Mines' goes back to the future

Monday, January 23, 2017

Believe It or Not

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:11 pm

"It's not a lie if you believe it."

Poster for "Operation Avalanche"

“We keep coming back and coming back
To the real: to the hotel instead of the hymns . . . .

— Wallace Stevens, quoted in posts tagged Portal1937

Thursday, December 8, 2016

Finite Groups and Their Geometric Representations

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:06 am

The title is that of a presentation by Arnold Emch
at the 1928 International Congress of Mathematicians:

See also yesterday's "Emch as a Forerunner of S(5, 8, 24)."

Related material: Diamond Theory in 1937.

Further remarks:  Christmas 2013 and the fact that
759 × 322,560 = the order of the large Mathieu group  M24 .

Friday, September 30, 2016

Desmic Midrash

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:19 am

The author of the review in the previous post, Dara Horn, supplies
below a midrash on "desmic," a term derived from the Greek desmé
( δέσμη: bundle, sheaf , or, in the mathematical sense, pencil —
French faisceau ), which is related to the term desmos , bond …

(The term "desmic," as noted earlier, is relevant to the structure of
Heidegger's Sternwürfel .)

The Horn midrash —

(The "medieval philosopher" here is not the remembered pre-Christian
Ben Sirah (Ecclesiasticus ) but the philosopher being read — Maimonides:  
Guide for the Perplexed , 3:51.)

Here of course "that bond" may be interpreted as corresponding to the
Greek desmos  above, thus also to the desmic  structure of the
stellated octahedron, a sort of three-dimensional Star of David.

See "desmic" in this journal.

Monday, December 21, 2015

ART WARS (continued)

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:22 am

Today in History —

"On December 21, 1937, 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'
premiered to a record-breaking audience at the Carthay Circle
Theatre in Los Angeles."

Related material: Today's previous post and the Red Book.

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