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Standing in defiance
of all things in science
is like
pulling out all your hair
just to protect your head
from air
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What did it look like in 1972?
ReplyDeleteUgly bravado from a "Pure" mathematician:
ReplyDeleteI stand in defiance of all things science
plus a long forgotten verse
about "non-compliance"
Why did you use the adjective "Pure"?
ReplyDeleteTo explain the gap between getting
Deletea perfect score on 1968 NY Geometry Regents
AND a 33 on my Earth Science final
Reading what I just wrote allows
for the possibility the first draft was written
while I still had parents
AND recited it for one
or both of them
Pure Mathematics is strictly about
numerical patterns and all things corollary
to those patterns OR what I used to call
the "psychology of numbers"
while APPLIED MATHEMATICS
involved chemistry/physics/ biology ...
I loved the former and was totally ignorant of
[and terrified] by the latter
Does the link to your poem on the Polish social network
ReplyDeletecontain a typographical error?
YES it does
DeleteThank you so much for asking:
"fitful" should be "fistful"