Re: Steven Cullinane is a Crank



crankbuster wrote:
> [...]
> "Strangely enough, this rather obvious geometric picture -- that of the
> linear four-space over the two-element field as a 4x4 array -- seems to
> have been completely overlooked in the refereed literature, except for
> its occurrence in the "miracle octad generator" (MOG) devised by R. T.
> Curtis in his study of the Mathieu group M24. Even in that occurrence,
> the 4x4 parts of Curtis's 4x6 MOG arrays were neither supplied with
> coordinates nor, indeed, explicitly identified as possessing the
> structure of a finite geometry (although the appropriate group -- which
> provides a nice solution to Weyl's problem above -- was described,
> albeit in a non-geometric manner)."
>
> Steven Cullinane
> http://log24.com/theory/geometry.html

Steven Cullinane's theory completely overlooked in the refereed
literature???!!! Hmm... I wonder why.

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