LARRY J. SCHULZ
Biographical Note
In his doctoral dissertation describing the work of the sixteenth century classicist 來知德 Lai Zhide (Princeton, 1982), Larry J. Schulz traced the outlines of traditional Chinese number theory that evolved from the binary structures (“trigrams” and “hexagrams”) associated with the Yijing 易經. In 1990 and 2011 the Journal of Chinese Philosophy published three articles on his discoveries regarding the architecture of the Yijing hexagram sequence. His monographs "Hexagrammatics" (2016) and "N Gua Theory" (2018) systematized the ideas of Shao Yong (邵庸, 1012-1077.), Lai Zhide, and others who identified various properties and rules inherent to binary sequences. These pieces, revised and translated into Chinese, along with several new papers have been published as《周易》卦序问题综论 (Collected Essays on the Question of the Order of Hexagrams in the Zhouyi,)(2022). Schulz applied the analytical techniques from those studies to solving another long-standing puzzle—the structure of the 81 matrix suite of Cai Chen (蔡沈, 1167-1230), published by Peter Lang as Number Names (2022).Schulz is a retired vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, where he began as chief speech writer for the Bank’s president and served last as executive over the Fed’s overnight check shipping network as well as its global payments network. He authored three patents in international electronic funds transfers. He was a payments system consultant to the Asian Development Bank in 2006 and 2007.
Publications:
Lai Chih-te (1525-1604) and the Phenomenology of the ‘Classic of Change’ (I Ching).” Princeton, 1982.
(with Shuen-fu Lin) The Tower of Myriad Mirrors (西遊補), 2nd. edn., 2000.
(with Thomas J. Cunningham) "The Seasonal Structure Underlying the Arrangement of Hexagrams in the Yijing.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 17, 1990: 289-313
“Structural Motifs in the Arrangement of the 64 Gua in the Zhouyi,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 17, 1990: 345-358.
"Structural Elements in the Zhou Yijing Hexagram Sequence." Journal of Chinese Philosophy 38:4, December 2011: 639–665.
Hexagrammatics. Atlanta: Zizai, 2016.
NGua Theory. Atlanta: Zizai, 2018.
(Xia Shihua 夏世华, ed) “Zhouyi” guaxuwenti zonglun《〈周易〉卦序问题综论》. Wuhan: Wuhan University Press, 2022.
Number Names: The Magic Square Divination of Cai Chen 蔡沈 (1167-1230). Bern: Peter Lang, 2022.
Publications:
Lai Chih-te (1525-1604) and the Phenomenology of the ‘Classic of Change’ (I Ching).” Princeton, 1982.
(with Shuen-fu Lin) The Tower of Myriad Mirrors (西遊補), 2nd. edn., 2000.
(with Thomas J. Cunningham) "The Seasonal Structure Underlying the Arrangement of Hexagrams in the Yijing.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 17, 1990: 289-313
“Structural Motifs in the Arrangement of the 64 Gua in the Zhouyi,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 17, 1990: 345-358.
"Structural Elements in the Zhou Yijing Hexagram Sequence." Journal of Chinese Philosophy 38:4, December 2011: 639–665.
Hexagrammatics. Atlanta: Zizai, 2016.
NGua Theory. Atlanta: Zizai, 2018.
(Xia Shihua 夏世华, ed) “Zhouyi” guaxuwenti zonglun《〈周易〉卦序问题综论》. Wuhan: Wuhan University Press, 2022.
Number Names: The Magic Square Divination of Cai Chen 蔡沈 (1167-1230). Bern: Peter Lang, 2022.