Literary notes about matrix (AI summary)
The term "matrix" is employed in literature with great versatility, serving as a bridge between the physical and the abstract. In certain works, it denotes a foundational substance or medium from which form and life emerge—for instance, it appears as a womb or essential framework that nurtures development ([1], [2], [3]). Other texts extend the meaning metaphorically to describe the intricate interplay of components within a system, emphasizing how each element contributes to an all-encompassing unity ([4], [5]). Moreover, the word is also used to represent environments or networks that shape ideas and identities, whether referring to the social fabric of informal education ([6], [7]) or to modern digital connections ([8], [9]). Through these various applications, "matrix" encapsulates both a material and a symbolic substrate that underpins and unifies diverse constituents.
- Sow’s womb, matrix, udder, belly, ℞ 59 , 172 , 251-8 Soyer, Alexis, chef, 35 Sparrow, see PASSER Spätzli, ℞ 247 Spelt, ℞ 58-9 Spengler, O., writer, p.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius - Matríce, the matrix or wombe of a woman wherein she conceiueth.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio - [pg 589] matrix, the model of the physical body in which the child is formed and developed.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky - The matrix and the items, each with all, make a unity, simply because each in truth is all the rest.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James - These were all so strongly attached, that it required as much force to separate them from the matrix "as to break a fragment off any hard rock."
— from Principles of Geology
or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir - In what we have termed informal education, subject matter is carried directly in the matrix of social intercourse.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - So much for the umbilical cord that unites every living post-rational system to the matrix of human hopes.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - cc:Mail gateways ———————— Many Local Area Networks have been connected to the global Matrix of networks.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno - | While the global matrix of networks grows rapidly, it is still behind in some lesser-developed nations and poorer parts of developed nations.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno