July 14, 2009
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Mathematics and Narrative, continued:
For Galois on Bastille Day
Elements
of Finite Geometry
Some fans of the alchemy in
Katherine Neville’s novel
The Eight and in Dan Brown’s
novel Angels & Demons may
enjoy the following analogy–
Note that the alchemical structure
at left, suited more to narrative
than to mathematics, nevertheless
is mirrored within the pure
mathematics at right.Related material
on Galois and geometry:Geometries of the group PSL(2, 11)
by Francis Buekenhout, Philippe Cara, and Koen Vanmeerbeek. Geom. Dedicata, 83 (1-3): 169–206, 2000–
