TO: Marjorie Senechal, Smith College, Kahn Liberal Arts Institute, 21 Henshaw Avenue, Northhampton, MA 01063
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: Your work to translate Dirk Struik’s key paper, “De Impletione Loci” plus your work cited on your Homepage(s): Editor-in-chief of The Mathematical Intelligencer (2004-2020), currently “Mathematical Communities”, Wikipedia; and your many articles, “Which Tetrahedra Fill Space?” Mathematics Magazine, vol. 54, no. 5, 1981, pp. 227–43. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2689983; The Mathematical Intelligencer Turns Forty!. Math Intelligencer 40, 1–3 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-018-9791-9 as well as your books, Crystalline Symmetries: An informal mathematical introduction ISBN 978-0-7503-0041-4 (Alan Hilger, 1990); and Quasicrystals and Geometry ISBN 978-0-521-37259-6 (Cambridge University Press, 1995)

References within this website: https://81018.com/struik-senechal/ — https://81018.com/vallentin/. — https://81018.com/2022/09/09/struik/ — https://81018.com/biased/#1f — https://81018.com/senechal/ (this page)

Email: 7 September 2024

Dear Prof. Dr. Marjorie Senechal:

I was looking for you among the images at the Hahn reception on September 5 late afternoon. I hope you were there and all due respect was given. 

I have taken up the issue of Aristotle’s Gap one more time — https://81018.com/too-simple/ — and there is a reference to your translation of Struik’s very special writing. 

My style is to inform everyone to whom I make a reference. This time I was learning so much from you, I had to start a reference page. https://81018.com/senechal/  I was embarrassed to have not done this page much earlier. You are a formidable scholar.

Is it all just too idiosyncratic for you?

Best wishes,

Bruce

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Please note: There were earlier emails in order to discuss, receive, and then suggest that her translation of Dirk Struik’s “De Impletione Loci” Problem be posted on the web. We are hoping to make time to digitize the article’s translation as alpha-numeric characters so various sections can be linked and further explored and discussed. It would also be a nicer presentation! Every line would by level to the horizontal plane! -bec

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