It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Euclid Was Also Known As The Pythagorean Executive Secretary

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Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,

And lay them prone upon the earth and cease

To ponder on themselves, the while they stare

At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere
In shapes of shifting lineage; let geese

Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release

From dusty bondage into luminous air.

O blinding hour, O holy, terrible day,
When first the shaft into his vision shone

Of light anatomized! Euclid alone 

Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they

Who, though once only and then but far away,
Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.


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Footnotes
The title is a quote from Frances Steerling
given during his address to an international
conference of Geometry teachers

Pythagoras refused to allow
any of his theories to be written
on paper but Euclid, born two hundred years
after Pythagoras, did so
and then some  

The title quote was his introduction
to the recital of Ms. Millay's poem

The quote got the louder laugh
but the poem got a standing ovation.

The image is from Newport, Oregon
and is the copyrighted property of LCSoL

The next Frances Steerling page is  here

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