An Impromptu Poem on the Occasion of a Math Test
In three hours I'll find a wall of points and lines
And must decide what I know, can know, and cannot:
Is it measurable, differentiable, countable?
Does it harbor the Heine-Borel property as
The Golden Gate Bridge does the San Francisco Bay,
Menacing, tall, international orange beacon,
Or rather like the fog between hilltops
That hides it away?
And must decide what I know, can know, and cannot:
Is it measurable, differentiable, countable?
Does it harbor the Heine-Borel property as
The Golden Gate Bridge does the San Francisco Bay,
Menacing, tall, international orange beacon,
Or rather like the fog between hilltops
That hides it away?
posted by Michael Barany at 1:33 PM
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"An Impromptu Poem on the Occasion of, Having Completed Aforementioned Exam, Encountering Such Erudite Retort"
Parsed and divided like
Cantor Sets of null measure
Nowhere dense, everywhere self-limiting.
The starry isle among isles among
Archipelagos of dots and dust
Like fragments of intuition:
Rivulets of promise
Multiplied and normalized by Lagrange
Delimited
To extrema
To nullity
Order upon ordered chaos
I begin.
"And So Forth: An Ad Hoc Couplet"
Champions of text find at best
Insight at math'matics' behest
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