Last edited on 1999-12-15 05:36:56 by stolfi
Voynich manuscript talk
On July 29 I gave a talk on the Voynich manuscript at the
22nd Brazilian Mathematics Colloquium (Rio de Janeiro, july
27-30, 1999). The talk was part of the Special Session on
Combinatorics. I gave a repeat performance a week later here in
Campinas, in a Combinatorics Workshop organized by R. Dahab (Unicamp)
and Y. Kohayakawa (USP).
You can get here my overhead slides in
Postscript format (5.6 MB, compressed with "zip" to 2.2 MB).
Slide titles
- 01 Cover slide
- 02 History of the Manuscript
- 03 The Manuscript
- 04 Major research efforts (inconclusive)
- 05 False solutions
- 06 Contents
- 07 The illustrations
- 08 The main text
- 09 Readable bits of text
- 10 What is the alphabet?
- 11 The EVA transcription alphabet
- 12 What does it mean?
- 13 The case for cipher
- 14 The case against cipher
- 15 Vigenère cipher
- 16 Effect of Vigenère cipher on Zipf's law
- 17 Is it random text?
- 18 Word length distribution
- 19 Comparing word length distributions
- 20 Entropy of Voynichese
- 21 Two languages? (1)
- 22 Two languages? (2)
- 23 The fine structure of words
- 24 The coarse structure of words
- 25 Problem: The original page order
- 26 Comparing pages by word usage
- 27 Comparing frequencies of several words
- 28 TSP by exhaustive enumeration
- 29 Folio permutations
- 30 Other problems
- 31 The Pizza Bet: phonetic Chinese?
- 32 Some references
- 33 Image sources