Sometimes we find things of great value when we are looking for something else -- in fact, Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges has said, The best way to find a good thing is to go looking for something else . . .
One of my recent stumbles (while looking for work by Borges) was onto the website of Robert Ronnow -- and I have found it a fun place to browse. Here is a sample, a poem from his recent collection, The Scientific Way to Do Mathematics:
Uncertainty by Robert Ronnow
--with a line by Pico Iyer
There cannot be two identical things in the world. Two
hydrogen atoms
offer infinite locations within their shells for electrons.
Thus, nothing can be definitely eventually known.
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Monday, June 22, 2015
Uncertainty . . .
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Friday, January 20, 2012
Statistics feels like poetry
Today's title comes from the following poem by statistician and poet Eveline Pye (introduced to this blog on 18 October, 2011).
Numerical Landscape by Eveline Pye
Like a tracker, I smell the earth
on my fingers, listen for the slightest
echo as I stare out at a world
where bell-shaped curves loom
Numerical Landscape by Eveline Pye
Like a tracker, I smell the earth
on my fingers, listen for the slightest
echo as I stare out at a world
where bell-shaped curves loom
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Action at a distance
One of the great things about writing this blog is the people who have -- out of the blue and across the miles -- sent along a great poem or tidbit. One of the valuable contributors is Tim Love, a British computer guy and poet -- and also a blogger (at LitRefs). The mysterious concept of "Action at a Distance" drives this Love poem:
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