Bibliography for the Q-Ching

These books and journal articles are particularly relevant to one's study of the Q-Ching. Articles that have been reproduced within this web site will have clickable hyperlinks to those pages. Journal citations will use the following abbreviations:

JOAC -- the Journal of Oriental Archeo-Computing.


Beggen, Egbert G. Digrams, Trigrams, Hexagrams: an Imperial Golden Code. Smalltalk Books, 1979.

Bulgerin, Martin. The Mythos of the Q-Ching. JOAC, Winter 1993.

Bulgerin, Martin. A Treatise on Hx. 16, Self-Reflexive. JOAC, Summer 2002.

Bulgerin, Martin. On the Computational Basis of Monotheistic Philosophies. From the TidBits column of JOAC, Spring 2003.

Bulgerin, Martin. Randomness and Meaning. From the TidBits column of JOAC, Fall 2003.

Compton, John. Trigram Data Disks and the Q-Ching. Private email to the authors, 2003-8-14.

Compton, John. The I Ching Key. Unpublished manuscript, 2005. Extracts from the forthcoming book The Secret Computer of the Ancient Gods. Received 2005-6-7.

deGuy, Vincent. Stonehenge: A Celtic Precursor to the Q-Ching. JOAC, Fall 2001.

deGuy, Vincent. Trigram Disks and Cryptography. Private email between the authors, 2003-8-28.

Girdle, Kirk. Q-Ching Cellular Automata (QCCA). JOAC, Winter 1999.

Gödel, Kurt. Über Formal Unentscheidbare Sätze der Principia Mathematica und Verwandter Systeme I. Monatshefte für Mathematik und Physik, 38, 1931. A translation of this pivotal paper appears in On Formally Undecideable Propositions, Basic Books, 1962.

Herbert, Nick. Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics. Anchor Press, 1985.

Hofstadter, Douglas R. Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid. Basic Books, 1979.

Jones, Oswald P. A Comparison of a Scroll titled The Tao of the Uncertainty of Divination and Modern Concepts of Quantum Physics. JOAC, Summer 2006.

Joseph, George Gheverghese. The Crest of the Peacock: The Non-European Roots of Mathematics. Princeton University Press, 1991 and 2000.

Killia, Nancy A. The Yarrow Stick Algorithm. JOAC, Fall 1997.

Killia, Nancy A. Probabilities and Empty Heaps. Private email between the authors, 2002-10-4.

Killia, Nancy A. Re: Trigram Data Disks, etc.. Private email between the authors, 2003-8-26.

McCormick, Michael. Yarrow Stick Probabilities. Private email between the authors, 2002-7-10.

McFnordland, John. Data Compression and the 6-7-8-9 Coding in the Q-Ching. JOAC, Spring 1995.

McFnordland, John. An Introduction to Second Order Hyperemblematic Lines. JOAC, Spring 1998.

McFnordland, John. A Programmer's Guide to Many Worlds Lines. JOAC, Spring 2000.

McFnordland, John. A Holographic Approach to HyperTrigrams. JOAC, Fall 2002.

Seife, Charles. Zero: the Biography of a Dangerous Idea. Penguin books, 2000.

Tai Won Yuan. Translated into English by Maggie Nireglub. Chronicles of the Court of the Golden Emperor. Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1977.

Turing, Alan M. On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, ser. 2, vol. 42 and 43, 1936.

Van Over, Raymond. Based on the translation by James Legge.I Ching. Mentor Book from New American Library, 1971.

Villapolis, Camille. A "Cantor Set" Calligraphy for Emblematic Lines. JOAC, Winter 2008.

Wilhelm, Richard. Translated into English by Carry F. Baynes. The I Ching or Book of Changes. Bollingen Series XIX, Princeton University Press, 1950.