The geometric objects that interest us are not triangles or octagons, but more complicated figures known as "adinkras", a name Faux suggested. The word "adinkra" is of West African etymology, and it originally referred to visual symbols created by the Akan people of Ghana and the Gyamen of Côte d'Ivoire to represent concepts or aphorisms. However, the mathematical adinkras we study are really only linked to those African symbols by name. Even so, it must be acknowledged that, like their forebears, mathematical adinkras also represent concepts that are difficult to express in words. Most intriguingly, they may even contain hints of something more profound including the idea that our universe could be a computer simulation, as in the Matrix films.
Constructs anyone?
-- Edited by Shirak on Thursday 22nd of March 2012 04:14:11 AM
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