George Duke wrote on Wed, Jun 20, 2007 09:51 PM UTC:
Henri Poincare, Emanuel Lasker(chess), and Oswald Spengler were all early
20th-century mathematicians. Poincare said(tr.Fr.), 'In fact, what is
mathematical creation? It does not consist in making new combinations with mathematical entities already known. Anyone could do that, but the
combinations so made would be infinite in number and most of them
absolutely without interest. To create consists precisely in not making
useless combinations and in making those which are useful and which are
only a small minority. Invention is discernment, choice.' [Math and Chess
starts in topic of Siam, or Thai, Chess.] The original starting-array
symmetry question of this thread is only one variable to be dealt with
mathematically in CV design.
