June 28, 2008

Cryptology Ribbon


Cryptology techniques can be very simple or very complex and nearly always involve mathematics. One technique used by the Spartan government 2500 years ago is illustrated by the encoded message that is partially displayed by the ribbon on the wall.

Your challenge is to identify the hidden letters of the encoded message on the wall whose original text was Albert Einstein’s famous saying:

Pure mathematics is,
in its own way,
the poetry of logical ideas.

Similar cryptology challenges are offered in Chi Hi’s Survey of Math, Algebra II, Math Investigations, and AP Calculus class

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