The following is from the weblog of a high school mathematics teacher—
This is related to the structure of the figure on the cover of the 1976 monograph Diamond Theory—
Each small square pattern on the cover is a Latin square,
with elements that are geometric figures rather than letters or
numerals.
All order-four Latin squares are represented.
For a deeper look at the structure of such squares, let the
high-school
chart above be labeled with the letters A through X, and apply the
four-color
decomposition theorem. The result is 24 structural
diagrams—
Some of the squares are structurally congruent under the group of 8 symmetries of the square.
This can be seen in the following regrouping—
(Image corrected on Jan. 25, 2011-- "seven" replaced "eight.")
Update of Feb. 5, 2011—
