A 13th-Century Enumeration Algorithm, Ignored for 700 Years
- This is the first article in a series about a discovery I made while researching Tserouf in the writings of the Kabbalist Abraham Aboulafia (1240 – after 1291).
- Tserouf is the Kabbalistic art of permuting the letters — and, in plain mathematical terms, it is the enumeration of all the permutations of an n-letter word.
- The context In Or ha-Sekhel (“The Light of the Intellect”), Aboulafia prescribes a systematic method for enumerating all the possible arrangements of an n-letter word.
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- This is the first article in a series about a discovery I made while researching Tserouf in the writings of the Kabbalist Abraham Aboulafia (1240 – after 1291).
- Tserouf is the Kabbalistic art of permuting the letters — and, in plain mathematical terms, it is the enumeration of all the permutations of an n-letter word.
- The context In Or ha-Sekhel (“The Light of the Intellect”), Aboulafia prescribes a systematic method for enumerating all the possible arrangements of an n-letter word.
Sources: Klipse