My new poetry book, Red Has No Reason, is now available (from Plain View Press or amazon.com). Several of the poems mention math--and one of them comments on the nature of mathematics. Ideas for "A Taste of Mathematics" (below) came from a mathematics conference in San Antonio, TX (January 1993) where it was announced that the billionth digit in the decimal expansion of π is 9. Recently an amazing new calculation record of 5 trillion digits (claimed by Alexander J. Yee and Shigeru Kondo) has been announced.
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010
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