by James Dow Allen <jdallen2000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Jul 1, 2008 at 11:59 PM
On Jul 2, 8:11=A0am, "534@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <rtte4...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> The tiling in medieval Islamic architecture turns out to embody a
> mathematical insight that Westerners thought they had discovered only 30
> years ago.
> http://www.newsweek.com/id/36281
I don't want to enter into a "religious dispute"
(unless comparing news magazines is "religion" :-)
but I will say I found it bizarre and disappointing that
the cited Newsweek article seems not to have
bothered to even give a picture of the tilings!
A quick use of Google turned up better articles,
including
http://www.physics.harvard.edu/~plu/publications/Science_315_1106_2007.pdfhttp://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/projects/ZhengSer-SRP.pdf
BTW, my math page
http://james.fabpedigree.com/mathmen.htm
briefly outlines the progression of the decimal system
China -> Hindu -> Islam -> Europe
Any comments on that page are welcome.
James Dow Allen
