Post ATIXUEkyNJ7xPQiu7E by 11011110@mathstodon.xyz
 (DIR) More posts by 11011110@mathstodon.xyz
 (DIR) Post #ATIXUEkyNJ7xPQiu7E by 11011110@mathstodon.xyz
       2023-03-05T07:12:15Z
       
       1 likes, 1 repeats
       
       Tables of Soyga: the first cellular automaton? https://stream.syscoi.com/2019/05/14/tables-of-soyga-the-first-cellular-automaton-anders-sandberg/Somehow I hadn't previously seen this 2014 post by Anders Sandberg arguing that the Book of Soyga (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Soyga), a 16th-century mystic text owned by John Dee, used cellular automaton based cryptography long before the modern study of cellular automata or cryptography.Via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35023440; the Jim Reeds paper deciphering the tables from the Book of Soyga is now a deadlink, but appears likely to be "John Dee and the magic tables in the book of Soyga", https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4246-9_10, http://library.pyramidal-foundational-information.com/books/The%20Book%20Of%20Soyga.pdf