| | 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--

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