TY  - JOUR
AU  - Andrea Bréard
PY  - 2024
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
JF  - Zhouyi Studies
IS  - 1
VL  - 1
SN  - 2993-0782
TI  - Divination with Hexagrams as Combinatorial Practice1
DO  - 10.3726/ZhouyiStudies11_171
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1512476
N2  - The production of broken and unbroken lines in yarrow stalk divination did not only serve the purpose of prognostication. This contribution shows that it was also considered as a model for mathematical reflections to solve combinatorial questions. By analyzing and translating entirely a text by the mid-Qing scholar Wang Lai 汪萊 (1768–1813), it turns out that mantic figures—without being limited to the six lines as in a hexagram—were used as the paradigmatic model in his manuscript 
KW  - Wang Lai, Jiao Xun, combinatorics, generalized hexagrams, mathematical modeling, Qing dynasty, mathematical practices
ER  -