Trigrams in the Ancient I Ching Oracle. An Application of Group Theory

• Ney V. Vugman ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

     Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

     Brasil

     
• Localización: Journal of chemical education, ISSN 0021-9584, Vol. 78, Nº 2, 2001, pág. 213
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The Ancient Chinese I Ching's trigrams may provide excellent motivation for learning group theory. It is shown that the eight trigrams form the representation of a mathematical group, which also may be written as the direct product of the water molecule point symmetry group and the group of the inversion operation.