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22 1 The Problems of Historical Chronology
T . Such a function X(T ) is called by Fomenko the volume
function for X. Of course, it is easy to define many other
similar numerical functions that could be used as an “identificator”
of the text X. For instance, the frequency the year T
is mentioned in the subsequent chapters of X, the number of
all the names of historical persons listed in the text, or how
many times these names were mentioned in the whole text. In
his monograph [103], A.T. Fomenko used several such functions
to analyze similarities and differences between various
historical documents, for which carried appropriate statistical
calculations and precise evaluations of probabilities. The
main problem was to identify which of the considered documents
referred to the same epoch or two different epochs.
In the case of two volume functions, this could be done as
follows: It is clear that for two different documents X and Y
their volume functions X(T ) and Y (T ) can be completely different
even if they refer to the same epoch. However, if X and
Y describe the same sequence of events, then it is most probable
that they will have the same distribution of local maxima.
It is quite obvious, that important events in both documents
would be presented in a more elaborated form. That means
for those “important years” T the volume functions X(T )
and Y (T ) would have local maxima. Consequiently, the both
functions X(T ) and Y (T ) would have similar distribution of
their maxima or the “important years.” A question arises how
to determine the probability that two volume functions with
similar maxima distribution are referreing to the same sequence
of events. A.T. Fomenko did the probability calculation
and verify their accuracy on the chronicles related to the
well documented epochs. On Figure 1.23 we show the distribution
of local maxima for five different chronicles describing
the same sequence of events. It is clear that, indeed, their
maxima are located almost in the same positions.
On the other hand, the coincidence of local maxima of two
volume functions can be used to identify, with very high probability,
that two hisorical texts describe the same epoch and
the same sequence of events, even if they were mistakenly
associated with different epochs. This method of matching
dependent texts is called by A.T. Fomenko the principle of
maximal correlation. This principle was empirically checked
using the reliable historical data of 16th – 19th centuries, and
its correctness was confirmed. Therefore, the locations of the
maxima constitute the numerical data that can be associated
with the text X in order to characterize the epoch it is referring
to.
An example of a simple scalar function, which can be easily
extracted from the historical database, is the functions
of the time-span of the reign of subsequent rulers belonging
to a certain specific dynasty. Such a dynasty function can be
illustrated by its graph, which is shown on Figure 1.24. On
the horizontal axis are placed the subsequent numbers of the
consecutive rulers (or names of kings, emperors, etc.) and on
the vertical axis is marked the length of the reign of the corresponding
ruler. Fomenko calls such a sequence of rulers a
numerical dynasty or simply a dynasty. The dynasty in the
above example consists of 12 rulers. Again, it is clear that two
Length of Reign (in years)
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Figure 1.24: Example of a dynasty function
chronicles (even if they have some discrepancies and are written
in different languages with different calendar conventions)
describing the same portion of history, would produce similar
dynasty functions. It is possible to determine the confidence
interval corresponding to a very high probability, that allows
us to identify such dependent dynasty functions, in which case
we can determine that the similarities are not coincidental and
in fact, they indicate that they represent the same sequence
of historical events.
The Roman coronation
of the Holy Roman
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Figure 1.26: Parallel between the Roman coronation of the
Holy Roman emperors and the biblical Israeli rulers
It may sounds strange that mathematical methods can be
effectively used to investigate correctness of historical dating,
but it is exactly what is the case here. The methods of
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