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	Paean to mathematics

tabsey

9-5-2008 8:15 AM

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Poetry.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/462216d0-9dbe-4ad0-926c-9b08fb897971/8FD2ECB0-4099-449D-8C18-8868F6A1C289/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.lablit.com/article/409" href="http://www.lablit.com/article/409" style="font-size: 11px;">www.lablit.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lablit.com/article/409"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.lablit.com/img/A7E498C1-2ADD-442E-A1E5-D0D13BB0B3F9" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lablit.com/article/409">such stark, strange beauty
(subtleties to befuddle machiavelli)
– who would not want<BR /><DIV>
to linger, to explore?</DIV>
infinities beyond enumeration,
beyond expected comprehension,
– yet all transfinite cardinals<BR /><DIV>
are subsumed in math's wide scope.</DIV>
but here lies madness, too:
emptinesses unimaginable,
shapes distorted to the limit,<BR /><DIV>
dimensions neither whole nor wholesome,</DIV>
</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lablit.com/article/409">yet each sustains its own (if
at times perverse) logic;
even so, some truths escape<BR /><DIV>
– sly gödel showed us that.</DIV>

our lives are insubstantial,
smoke-thin dreams of shadows
which fail to even model <BR /><DIV>
mere second-order logic.</DIV>
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