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Prathyush
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Thought you might be the one to ask. Do you know of any connection between Arab algebra and zairjas mentioned here?
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Prathyush
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On the calculating devices of Llull and Leibniz: publicdomainreview.org/essay/let-us-c Traces the origin of this method to medieval Arabic divination boards called “Zairjas” (زايرجة) likely a Persian portmanteau of zaicha (horoscope) + daira (circle).
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hmm not in arab algebra but that'd take more of a historian than me, I've used techniques similar to that though you could draw parallels between ideaspace and linear algebra, but ideaspace doesn't afford quite the same things as vector spaces
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while you can (very fruitfully) draw parallels in both, ideas are for example not commutative (twitter.com/allgebrah/stat + what remains of that thread)
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intuitively I'd go for trope=vector but tropes are only very roughly commutative, their ordering still matters ideaspace is more vector-spacey personally I conceptualize narratives as paths (synkretie.net/writings/wildp) but through something other than ideaspace
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Prathyush
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Yup. There seems to be some more precedents to this story I am tracking here:
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Reading history of logic has helped me in slowly building a narrative framework of the intellectual history starting from a medieval monk Llull → Leibniz → Frege → Hilbert, Russell → Church, Turing → Kleene → McCarthy, Landin → now. Here is a visualization of this story:
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The golden braid of logic
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