Showing posts with label Sylvester Surfaces. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sylvester Surfaces. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Theoretical Excellence

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Although Aristotle in general had a more empirical and experimental attitude than Plato, modern science did not come into its own until Plat...
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Friday, March 23, 2007

Solidification of Geometrical Presence

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While I might infer the "attributes of Coxeter here," it is with the understanding such a dimensional perspective which has it...
Monday, March 19, 2007

Pasquale Del Pezzo and E8 Origination?

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" I’m a Platonist — a follower of Plato — who believes that one didn’t invent these sorts of things, that one discovers them. In a sens...
Wednesday, March 14, 2007

IN Search of Mandelstam's Holy Grail

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There are two posts that reflect the purpose of this post today. One is Clifford's linked through Lee Smolin's comment and the other...
Monday, March 20, 2006

Ways IN which To Percieve Landscape?

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What a Cosmologist Wants from a String Theorist? Emotion versus Reason? 3.1 As Cytowic notes, Plato and Socrates viewed emotion and reason...
Friday, December 30, 2005

Special holonomy manifolds in string theory

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So what instigated my topic today and Hypercharge make sits way for me to reconsider, so while doing this the idea of geoemtries and th eway...
Monday, September 05, 2005

Foundational Mathematics and Physics?

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I reproduce the post written below to Peter's Quantum Gravity Commentary because that basis of determinations supported by John Baez, i...
Thursday, July 07, 2005

B Field Manifestations

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Ah what the heck......I'll bite....let the skeptics converge in a harmonic convergence:) Nigel Hitching Sylvester Surfaces and the B fie...
Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Special Lagrangian geometry

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Dr. Mark Haskins On a wider class of complex manifolds - the so-called Calabi-Yau manifolds - there is also a natural notion of special Lagr...
Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Wunderkammern

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For me this is a wonderful view of abstraction, that had gone into model making, to help those less inclined to "the visonistic qualiti...
Monday, May 23, 2005

Albrecht Durer and His Magic Square

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Albrecht Dürer (self portrait at 28) It was important to me that I post the correct painting and one that had undergone revision to exemp...
Saturday, May 21, 2005

Sylvester's Surfaces

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Figure 2. Clebsch's Diagonal Surface : Wonderful . We are told that "mathematics is that study which knows nothing of observation.....