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Forum for Readers of the Diamond Theory Website
This forum is no longer active. It was intended for readers of the Diamond Theory website, which deals with finite geometry, combinatorics, and group theory. To view the parent website, Diamond Theory, click the following:
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Subject: Fraud
Author: Steven H. Cullinane [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 22:39:19 11/12/02 Tue Readers of this site should disregard the derogatory remarks below signed "RT Curtis." This is not the real R. T. Curtis, but an impostor. Deleting the remarks would only tend to confirm the views of their (as yet unknown) author. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

Subject: Steven H. Cullinane is a Fraud
Author: RT Curtis [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 07:45:54 11/12/02 Tue Steven H. Cullinane has been forging the messages below to save his arse. He cannot explain how he gets the number 322560 from his calculations! RT Curtis [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Steven H. Cullinane is a Fraud
Author: Steven H. Cullinane [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 06:03:31 11/13/02 Wed As noted elsewhere, this "RT Curtis" is an impostor. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

Subject: Thank you
Author: Jed Pack [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 22:24:20 11/11/02 Mon Steve Cullinane, Thank you for your help! You are absolutely correct. I should have read your site more carefully. The matter of the number of "configurations" was simply a misunderstanding. I have verified the number you have given. Although I am not a mathematician, I find your work interesting. Jed Pack [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Thank you
Author: Steven H. Cullinane [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 00:11:25 11/12/02 Tue You're welcome. I'm sorry there was a misunderstanding about the semantics of "configurations." Thanks for your interest, and best wishes. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

Subject: About Steven Cullinane's "Diamond Theory"

Author:
RT Curtis
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Date Posted: 12:29:15 11/03/02 Sun

The "Diamond Theory" website of Steven Cullinane shows a man who is incapable of telling the truth: a pathological liar who hates and despises the mathematical community; a sociopath caught between the conflicting desires to earn the admiration of mathematicians, and his desire to insult those who ignore him and refuse him his self-perceived due measure of honor and reverie. As such, Steven Cullinane is constantly trying to purchase recognition when he has the funds to advertise on google.com, or steal that recognition by lying and deceiving dmoz.org when money isn't enough. As you can see from the correspondence below, Jed Pack has clearly pointed out serious errors in Steven Cullinane's calculations. Now, instead of admitting that he has been caught with his pants down, Steven Cullinane is questioning Jed Pack's education! Surely, Jed Pack is a more competent mathematician than Steven Cullinane.

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[> Subject: Re: About Steven Cullinane's "Diamond Theory"
Author: Steven H. Cullinane [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 08:30:30 11/10/02 Sun Isn't free speech wonderful? I am curious about two things... (1) Are you the R. T. Curtis of Miracle Octad Generator fame -- and if so, why is your email address not his academic email address, and (2) On what, other than the evidence shown in this forum, do you base your assessment of Pack's abilities? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: About Steven Cullinane's "Diamond Theory"

Author:
Robert T. Curtis
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Date Posted: 12:11:12 11/11/02 Mon

I wish to make it clear that I had nothing whatsoever to
do with the message posted on this web-site as having
been sent by R.T.Curtis. There may, of course, be another
R.T.Curtis around who has a particular grudge against
Professor Steven Cullinane. I do not. Indeed, the exchanges
we have had with one another over the years have always
been cordial and civilised.

If someone is deliberately using my name to attack Steven
Cullinane anonymously, it shows malice and cowardice
unusual in the mathematical world.

Robert Curtis.

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Subject: What is the point of diamond theory
Author: Bob [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 18:12:04 05/10/01 Thu What is the point of diamond theory? The pictures are pretty, but there are lots of pretty things to research in mathematics. Why is diamond theory more important than the other fields? Bob. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: What is the point of diamond theory

Author:
Steve Cullinane
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Date Posted: 19:59:52 05/11/01 Fri

Dear Bob:

You ask what is the point of diamond theory.

Answer 1:

"...that profoundly serene and satisfying quality
which inheres in mathematics and in music and which may be described as the creation out of simple elements of a self-contained universe of forms."
- Edward Sapir, "The Grammarian and his Language," American Mercury 1:149-155, 1924

Answer 2:

As Weyl pointed out, symmetry is one of the most important concepts in mathematics (not to mention physics). Symmetry is often defined as invariance of some property under a group of transformations. Diamond theory is of aesthetic and pedagogical interest because what is invariant under its groups of tranformations is.... symmetry itself!

Answer 3:

Diamond theory provides insight (via the MOG of R. T. Curtis) into the structure of M24 -- the most interesting finite group, according to J. H. Conway.

I don't claim that diamond theory is more important than other fields, but that it forms a natural part of the fields of finite geometry, finite group theory, and combinatorics.

Yours truly, Steve Cullinane

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