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The Hermit (tarot card) (Redirected from The Hermit (Tarot card)) The Hermit (IX) from the Rider–Waite tarot deck illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith. The Hermit (IX) is the ninth trump or Major Arcana card in most traditional tarot decks. It is used in game playing as well as in divination.
The Rider–Waite Tarot is a widely popular deck for tarot card reading, [ 1 ][ 2 ] first published by the Rider Company in 1909, based on the instructions of academic and mystic A. E. Waite and illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith, both members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Also known as the Waite–Smith, [ 3 ]Rider–Waite–Smith ...
Conjugate transpose. In mathematics, the conjugate transpose, also known as the Hermitian transpose, of an complex matrix is an matrix obtained by transposing and applying complex conjugation to each entry (the complex conjugate of being , for real numbers and ). There are several notations, such as or , [1] , [2] or (often in physics) .
The Major Arcana are the named cards in a cartomantic tarot pack. There are usually 22 such cards in a standard 78-card pack, typically numbered from 0 to 21 (or 1 to 21, with the Fool being left unnumbered). Although the cards correspond to the trump cards of a pack used for playing tarot card game, [1] the term 'Major Arcana' is rarely used ...
Hermitian adjoint. In mathematics, specifically in operator theory, each linear operator on an inner product space defines a Hermitian adjoint (or adjoint) operator on that space according to the rule. where is the inner product on the vector space. The adjoint may also be called the Hermitian conjugate or simply the Hermitian[1] after Charles ...
Hermitian matrices are applied in the design and analysis of communications system, especially in the field of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Channel matrices in MIMO systems often exhibit Hermitian properties. In graph theory, Hermitian matrices are used to study the spectra of graphs. The Hermitian Laplacian matrix is a key ...
Tarot. Card player with Austrian tarot cards (Industrie und Glück pattern) Trumps of the Tarot de Marseilles, a standard 18th-century playing card pack, later also used for divination. Tarot (/ ˈtæroʊ /, first known as trionfi and later as tarocchi or tarocks) is a pack of playing cards, used from at least the mid-15th century in various ...
Hermit. Saint Jerome, who lived as a hermit near Bethlehem, depicted in his study being visited by two angels (Cavarozzi, early-17th century) A hermit, also known as an eremite (adjectival form: hermitic or eremitic) or solitary, is a person who lives in seclusion. [1][2][3] Eremitism plays a role in a variety of religions.