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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

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--

http://www.log24.com/log/pix09A/090714-Lattices.jpg

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--


http://www.log24.com/log/pix09A/090714-Intro.jpg

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