Sunday, February 12, 2006

"Math People Are Not English People"

They use different sides of the brain

But there is a rhythm in
sin(c)=tan(e)

and beauty in the way
the derivative of
x^4
curves like dune crests
and shark vertebrae
slicing the water

and something more than
a little poetic
in the arcs and angles
of a sliced circle.


Anonymous
07:10:29 PM

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Curses! The 6th line should be x^5, not x^4!

2/12/2006 07:24:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Acually, wait. It's correct the way it is.
English people really aren't math people, and I am proof of that.

2/12/2006 07:37:00 PM  
Blogger Maverick said...

I loathe math but I enjoyed this. There is something calming about the rhythm of this piece. A nice spurt of creativity.

2/12/2006 08:53:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

As an English person who happens to chance good scores on her math tests once in a while, I appreciated this piece. There is great beauty in the graceful mathematic precision of a well-graphed sine wave.

2/12/2006 10:01:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I infinitely prefer cosine.

2/12/2006 11:45:00 PM  

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