Author Archives: PlatoHagel

Melancholia Magic Square

Posted on December 3, 2007 by PlatoHagel

The most famous 4 x 4 magic square is the so-called Melancholia magic square. In 1514, Albrecht Dürer used the square in his engraving Melancholie which depicts the indecision of the intellectual. The two numbers, 15 and 14, in the … Continue reading →

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Projective Geometries

Posted on December 2, 2007 by PlatoHagel

A theorem which is valid for a geometry in this sequence is automatically valid for the ones that follow. The theorems of projective geometry are automatically valid theorems of Euclidean geometry. We say that topological geometry is more abstract than … Continue reading →

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Gino Fano

Posted on November 26, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Gino Fano (5 January 1871 – 8 November 1952) was an Italian mathematician. He was born in Mantua, Italy and died in Verona, Italy. Fano worked on projective and algebraic geometry; the Fano plane and Fano varieties are named for … Continue reading →

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Self Evident Dimensional Perspective

Posted on November 17, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Where a dictionary proceeds in a circular manner, defining a word by reference to another, the basic concepts of mathematics are infinitely closer to an indecomposable element”, a kind of elementary particle” of thought with a minimal amount of ambiguity … Continue reading →

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The Ring of Truth

Posted on November 14, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Savas Dimopoulos:Here’s an analogy to understand this: imagine that our universe is a two-dimensional pool table, which you look down on from the third spatial dimension. When the billiard balls collide on the table, they scatter into new trajectories across … Continue reading →

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Where Spacetime is flat?

Posted on November 12, 2007 by PlatoHagel

……A Condensative Result exists. Where “energy concentrates” and expresses outward. I mean if I were to put on my eyeglasses, and these glasses were given to a way of seeing this universe, why not look at the whole universe bathed … Continue reading →

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Dark Matter Issue

Posted on November 5, 2007 by PlatoHagel

We’re faced with the same choices today, with galaxies and clusters playing the role of the Solar System. Except that the question has basically been answered, by observations such as the Bullet Cluster. If you modify gravity, it’s fairly straightforward … Continue reading →

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Minature Satellites in Space

Posted on November 4, 2007 by PlatoHagel

KC-135 Flight Experiments The Reduced Gravity Program at NASA’s Johnson Space Center provides the unique “weightless” or “zero-g” environment of space flight using a specially modified KC-135A. The KC flies parabolic arcs to produce weightless periods of 20 to 25 … Continue reading →

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Beauty and Asymmetry

Posted on November 2, 2007 by PlatoHagel

BEHOLDING beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities, for he has hold not of an image but of a reality, and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue … Continue reading →

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Work in Progress

Posted on October 28, 2007 by PlatoHagel

A VIEW OF MATHEMATICS Alain CONNES Most mathematicians adopt a pragmatic attitude and see themselves as the explorers of this mathematical world” whose existence they don’t have any wish to question, and whose structure they uncover by a mixture of … Continue reading →

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