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Cullinane 04:00, 18 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Diamond theory - Content not sufficiently encyclopedic, a personal theory. -- Charles Matthews 17:23, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- Looks rather bogus. Andre Engels 17:51, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- Seems to be a theory from the book titled "The Non-Euclidean Revolution". I'd say keep for now. Anthony DiPierro 20:30, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  - No, definitely nothing to do with that. To read about the non-euclidean revolution, see Non-Euclidean geometry, Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, János Bolyai. The only connection I can find between this and that, is that it's both geometry. Andre Engels 20:52, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    - I know what non-Euclidean geometry is. I was referring to a book with that title (see the link). Anthony DiPierro 20:58, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- My doubts aren't about it's being real mathematics, nor about connections to interesting areas - I just suspect it of being 'minor' research, of which there are 1000s of papers put out annually. No connection with NEG Charles Matthews 21:01, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  - I'm not sure myself even if it's real mathematics. But 5 days doesn't seem long enough to research this. Anthony DiPierro 21:17, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. It appears to be a possibly interesting elaboration of symmetries in two-dimensional patterns (which perhaps is not even new), created by a non-mathematician in a personal web site and in a self-published book. There actually could be some valid group theory in there (It's not written up as a standard mathematical treatise and I'm not patient enough to dig it out), but the author has, alas, asserted that it yields something revolutionary in a way that ~~borders on~~ is crankery. Specifically he subtly conflates the group theory analysis with something called the "Diamond theory of truth" from a book about the philosophy of science and asserts his particular mathematical analysis restores a lost way of doing mathematics. *sigh*. As it written now, it is masquerading as accepted mathematics, which it is not. -- Decumanus 16:30, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. The author of this "theory" has created lots of stuff on the web to support his views, see [1], [2], [3], [4], but no evidence that he's attracted a significant following despite this. Andrewa 11:52, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. Someone's pet idea, not encyclopedic. --Zundark 11:11, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)