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Interestingly, some of the early sources¹ on such recursive string rewriting methods are from Baal haRokeach². 1. https://www.academia.edu/38490274/Symbolic_co
by shmerl 7y ago
Interestingly, some of the early sources¹ on such recursive string rewriting methods are from Baal haRokeach².
1. https://www.academia.edu/38490274/Symbolic_computation_and_digital_philosophy_in_early_Ashkenazic_Kabbalah https://www.academia.edu/38490274/Symbolic_computation_and_d...
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleazar_of_Worms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleazar_of_Worms
- thorel 7y agoSome people trace the first exposition of recursive production rules for grammars back to Pāṇini (around 5th century BCE) [1] [1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/23497283?seq=1 https://www.jstor.org/stable/23497283?seq=1
- shmerl 7y agoYep, it was also known to eastern mystics. And there is also a parallel in Sefer Yetzira about "stones" (letters) building "houses" (permutations), which also refers to such generative grammars.
- derefr 7y agoHuh, I’m surprised some allusion to this didn’t come up in http://unsongbook.com/ http://unsongbook.com/. Or maybe I just missed it!