Science as a way of life
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Posted on: February 26, 2007 5:38 AM, by Selva
To Martin Gardner
"Lines that are parallel
meet at Infinity!"
Euclid repeatedly,
heatedly,
urged
Until he died.
and so reached that vicinity:
in it he
found that the damned things
diverged.
*Poem quoted from the book Imaginary Numbers
*Piet Hein
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Comments
I love this. Thanks!
Posted by: The Ridger | February 26, 2007 9:11 AM
He was Danish? And he wrote these in English? I am doubly impressed.
Posted by: The Ridger | February 26, 2007 9:14 AM
don't you know that how they map the plane into the sphere, by assuming all lines "converge" to "infinity", which is a point.
Posted by: bharath | February 26, 2007 8:34 PM
It's always nice to see another Piet Hein fan.
Posted by: Bill | March 4, 2007 12:53 AM