Tag: Symmetry
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Some questions about group theory
I am trying to read too many books at the moment, and one of them is Keith Devlin’s fascinating, but occasionally infuriating The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible. The book skates through mathematical concepts at a dizzying speed – often pausing only briefly to explain them. It is allowed to do this, it […]
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A regular but non-symmetric grid
Working through my qualifying dissertation ahead of tomorrow’s viva, I came across a bit where I had written that a network-on-chip system is regular if all its nodes have the same degree (i.e., number of connections) and symmetrical if all nodes look alike. I suddenly wondered (this is the semi-paranoid state I am in ahead of tomorrow) if […]