I'm wanting to pick the brains of the mathematically inclined on this list
(as you all know, my brain is not a mathematical one). I'm presently
writing the cod appendices for The Crow (Book 3 in the Pellinor series)
which includes a brief essay on the culture of the Suderain, my fabulous
Indo-Arabic-African-Japanese whatever society to the south of Annar (I
realise that this will mean nothing to those who haven't read the books, but
bear with me...)
Anyway, my Suderain Bards, a fairly diverse people, are very sophisticated
in the use of optics, and therefore great astronomers, theoreticians of
complexity, possibly aware even of DNA, have a theory of evolution and a
working theory of genetics, and so on.
What I need is a couple of suggestions for advanced mathematical concepts
that my Bards might have anachronistically theorised, that I can then twist
and adapt for my own purposes to demonstrate how amazingly clever they were.
Does this make any sense? Any help would be greatly appreciated and will be
logged in my wonderful footnotes -
Best
A
Alison Croggon
Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
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