VIC112Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Chaturanga, Solomon W. Golomb, List Of Mancala Games
9 Oct 2017
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No other animal displays a comparable need for mystery and suspense. Plato: dialectic thinking only way to gain knowledge. Aim of superstitious tradition = probe what we don"t know for answers. Catharsis: used by aristotle to describe the relief from watching a tragic drama unfold. Lewis carroll: puzzles are structures of the human imagination, wonderland is the human imagination. Raymond smullyan: coined puzzle-land to describe carroll"s view of the imagination. Book of games: one of the highest selling books during the medieval ages. Labyrinths: physical expressions of puzzles, also metaphors for the path to enlightenment in ancient. Amenemhet iii: created a 3000 chamber labyrinth. Evidence of bone dice 11,000 years old found in modern-day zaire. One of the oldest manuscripts: the ahmes papyrus. Thebes, upper egypt (33 ce, original by ne-ma"et-re[amenemhet iii] c. 1800 bce): some of the earliest mathematical symbols directions for attaining knowledge of all dark things . I ching: cryptic poems, symbolic answers to spiritual questions.
