Showing posts with label complement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label complement. Show all posts

Monday, December 20, 2010

"M" is for Mathematics and . . .

Today's poem by Miroslav Holub (1923-98) is square, having 5 lines of 5 letters each; it describes the letter M by using what is "not M" -- a style of reasoning often used to good effect in both poetry and mathematics.