I recently stumbled on a gem of a book called The Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth. As I skimmed through it, I found it to be a rather unique book, and wanted to know more about how it came to be. Chances are you found this weblog post because you're researching it like I was. Its origins […]
This post is explained in the preceding post. Below is a transcript of the following video: ARTHUR M. YOUNG's WHY SEVEN? (TEACHING SERIES) (YouTube) Why Seven? To explain seven we have to go to the torus. The torus is one of the most common phenomena in nature, for example the vortex in air. The […]
I have discovered the joy of learning Arthur M. Young's remarkable insights. I have not read his books yet, but stumbled into his online writing recently, and realized quickly how he is a brilliant intuitive -- indeed he has an exceedingly rare way of seeing the world, with deep insights into the […]
The other day, I was tweaking the symmetry of the Fano plane, as described in a previous post, and ended the experiment by pondering whether there was more to the idea than I could see. A few days passed, and then today, while I was reading a completely unrelated description of energy flowing into a […]
While reading John Baez's article on octonions, I came upon the illustration of the Fano plane familiar to anyone who has studied octonions for at least 60 seconds. I've seen it many times before and pondered again at what riddles remain buried in its symmetrical shape. Then as the article […]