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4 unusual facts about Shea Zellweger


Institute For Figuring

Exhibitions have included Crocheting the Hyperbolic Plane at Machine Project in Los Angeles and Philosophical Toys at apexart in New York, (co-curated by Sina Najafi of Cabinet.) The latter show included the drawings and models of Shea Zellweger an outsider logician who has spent the past 50 years exploring the geometric relationships underlying in modern logic.

Logic alphabet

The considerable aesthetic appeal of the logic alphabet has led to exhibitions of Zellweger's work at the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, among other places.

Dr. Zellweger's logic alphabet offers a visually systematic way of representing each of the sixteen binary truth functions.

Shea Zellweger

Roman Numerals (I, II, III) were cumbersome to use and only maintained a dominant role in arithmetic until 1202, when Leonardo Fibonacci in his work Liber Abaci, demonstrated that calculations with Hindu-Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3) were far more efficient.



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