Russian book on I Ching sequence

[hilary]

For readers of Russian (Peter, you there?), there is a new book out which is said to 'prove that hexagrams’ order existing in The Book of Change is a solely correct one and that it is obeys the Luo-shu “magic” square mathematical law.' Its authors, Gennadij Fomyuk and Elena Kudina, emailed me from Kiev with this description and promise of an English version, and also said you could download the Russian version from their sites, http://gennadij-fomyuk.narod.ru/index.html and http://arbuz.uz/s_kniga.html .

[peter]

I'd better send you a personal message.

[sparhawk]

Well? Any further news on this? Interested in Peter's opinion on this...

Luis

[jesed]

Me too....

[peter]

Oh, well. My opinion is that the work of Fomyuk doesn't prove anything. I read it in Russian about 4 times, trying to find the solution, but found nothing. I corresponded with Fomyuk also, but firstly he refused to explain me his idea (he told that he'd written all the information in his book), later he tried to answer some of my questions, but when I asked why, say, hexagram "Thunder" has number 51 and "Mountain" - number 52, he stopped the correspondence. I know that he still doesn't like me - maybe because I criticized his work to the ground and didn't offer my solution.

What Fomyuk tried to do: he takes the traditional sequence, adds some hexagrams with "pseudo-trigram" "tai-chi" (or "tai-ji") - 17 in total, so the amount fo hexagrams becomes 81, - he adds them between symmetrical and antisymmetrical pairs (1-2, 11-12, 17-18, 27-28, 29-30, 53-54, 61-62 and 63-64), then rearranges hexagrams, so all odd hexagrams go into the first half, and even - into second half, and "pseudo-hexagram" made of 2 "tai-chi" is between two halves. And basing on this arrangement he declares that he found the law in numeration. I tried to show him that if he bases on the traditional sequence, he won't receive anything after all his permutations, except the same traditional sequence, of course. But I'm afraid he's not a mentally sane man, otherwise he'd see his mistake quickly.

Oh, I see that Fomyuk also found the law of distribution of prime numbers. Well, well, let's examine...