"Give Me an Epsilon and I Will Treat It Well" first appeared in the American Mathematical Monthly (1980); it also is found in the anthology Strange Attractors (A K Peters, 2008).
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Ray Bobo's mathematical poem
Ray Bobo, a retired Georgetown mathematics professor, has written a love poem with mathematical symbols. And, for those of us who might be unsure how to interpret the mathematics, Bobo has provided a parallel column with an English-language interpretation of his mathematics. Enjoy!
"Give Me an Epsilon and I Will Treat It Well" first appeared in the American Mathematical Monthly (1980); it also is found in the anthology Strange Attractors (A K Peters, 2008).
"Give Me an Epsilon and I Will Treat It Well" first appeared in the American Mathematical Monthly (1980); it also is found in the anthology Strange Attractors (A K Peters, 2008).
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I wonder what the epsilon represents?
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