Showing posts with label infinite series. Show all posts
Showing posts with label infinite series. Show all posts
Monday, November 11, 2013
The minute in infinity
From Treatise on Infinite Series by Jacob Bernoulli
Even as the finite encloses an infinite series
And in the unlimited limits appear,
So the soul of immensity dwells in minutia
And in narrowest limits no limits inhere.
What joy to discern the minute in infinity!
The vast to perceive in the small, what divinity!
Translated from the Latin by Helen M. Walker
Found in the anthology, Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics (A K Peters, 2008), edited by Sarah Glaz and me. A complete table of Contents for this collection may be found here.
Monday, October 21, 2013
Topology for poets
The title of this posting ("Topology for Poets") comes from Maryland Poet Amy Eisner's poem "Lure" (offered below) -- a poem that plays with math concepts. (In mathematics, "topology" is a variant of geometry in two shapes are "equivalent" if one could be obtained from the other by stretching or bending.)
It was my pleasure to meet Amy when she read in the Takoma Park Third Thursday Poetry Series earlier this year. I like her work. Enjoy!
Lure by Amy Eisner
1.
My friend is crocheting a fishing line. This is not a gift and keeps no one warm.
This is withdrawing. Persisting in a flaw. Forfending.
She knows there’s something perverse in it. Like growing a mold garden.
Fishing does involve a hook, a line, and a net. But not like this.
It was my pleasure to meet Amy when she read in the Takoma Park Third Thursday Poetry Series earlier this year. I like her work. Enjoy!
Lure by Amy Eisner
1.
My friend is crocheting a fishing line. This is not a gift and keeps no one warm.
This is withdrawing. Persisting in a flaw. Forfending.
She knows there’s something perverse in it. Like growing a mold garden.
Fishing does involve a hook, a line, and a net. But not like this.
Labels:
Amy Eisner,
infinite series,
line,
mathematics,
net,
poem,
Takoma Park,
topology
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