Epimemiology.
Grab the nearest book, turn to page 23 and blog the fifth sentence on that page. Unfortunately the closest book to me is Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering by K.F. Riley, M.P. Hobson and S.J Bence:
Firstly we rewrite the integral as
Fascinating stuff. If, however, I’m allowed to disqualify textbooks (and it’s not as if a man is going to come round to my house and stop me) then the result is this slightly more interesting extract from A Beautiful Mind, a biography of John Nash by Sylvia Nasar:
Sometimes he would cadge cigarettes or spare change, but mostly he kept very much to himself, a silent, furtive figure, gaunt and gray, who sat alone off in a corner, drinking coffee, smoking, spreading out a ragged pile of papers that he carried with him always.
If even this sentence doesn’t satisfy your hunger for entertainment, I suggest you read the epidemiology of this meme over at Laughing Meme.
April 24th, 2004 at 16:00
I’d be a stick to the letter of the law here. The integral of ln(x) is a matheme of undisputable beauty (consider its relationship to harmony). The Sylvia Nasar sentence is just a tepid Mad Professor cliché.
April 24th, 2004 at 16:01
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May 3rd, 2004 at 22:56
Liens en vrac (V)
Fils dénoués : réplication non conforme, autopsies et reniflages mèmétiques, mèmes en français, éclairage « poétique » du Réverbère.