Mathematics Entropy | 24 May 2009
New Search Tool ( Not Engine) aims at Answering Tough Queries.. Wolfram Alpha excels at finding answers to questions that have never been asked. Every new online search service must face the inevitable question: “Is it better than Google?” WolframAlpha, a powerful new service that can answer a broad range of queries, has become one [...]
Mathematics &Poetry Entropy | 17 Apr 2009
J. V. Cunningham, poet, critic, editor, and general man of letters, gained the high regard of his literary colleagues for his concise, witty, epigrammatic poetry. His epigrammatic lines range from the solemn—”Life flows to death as rivers to the sea / And life is fresh and death is salt to me”—to the humorous—noting that a [...]
Mathematics &Nature &Poetry Entropy | 14 Jan 2009
Inger Christensen, a distinguished Danish poet whose work — lyrical, philosophical, self-referential and exquisitely mathematical — was a cornerstone of modern Scandinavian poetry, died on Jan. 2 in Copenhagen. She was 73 and lived in Copenhagen. Read N.Y.Times obituary Inger Christensen wrote her masterpiece poem “Alphabet” in 1981.(Being reproduced below) She uses the alphabet (from [...]
Mathematics &Philosophy &Poetry Entropy | 31 May 2008
0 Philosophic in its complex, ovoid emptiness, a skillful pundit coined it as a sort of stopgap doorstop for those quaint equations Romans never dreamt of. In form completely clever and discrete—a mirror come unsilvered, loose watch face without the works, a hollowed globe from tip to toe unbroken, it evades the grappling hooks of [...]
Mathematics &Philosophy &Poetry Entropy | 08 May 2008
Relationship(s) of Quantity to Quality Where did Quantity and Quality come from? Some Cosmic or Existential Sum? It may sound simply dumb. But it may have come from a Mathematicians rule of thumb… Or A plumb line not very fine, or mine, But Divine. Quantity – Quality => Imposiblé. Quality – Quantity: They may say, [...]
Mathematics &Science Entropy | 28 Apr 2008
One can not imagine a spooky feeling of seeing & reading actual, original manuscript of Einstein’s E=mc² paper.. Its almost like playing God .. One of only three existing manuscripts (two of them are housed at the Albert Einstein Archives) which contain Einstein’s famous formula, E=mc². Einstein’s formula, which describes the relationship between energy (E), [...]