Re: Love and Tensor Algebra
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- Subject: [mg79539] Re: Love and Tensor Algebra
- From: dimitris <dimmechan at yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 05:47:04 -0400 (EDT)
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On 27 , 13:00, J=E1nos <janos.l... at yale.edu> wrote: > Found here: > > http://www.ee.duke.edu/~wrankin/misc/tensor.html > > In-joy during lunch break :) > > J=E1nos > > ------------------------------------------- > > Come, let us hasten to a higher plane > Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, > Their indices bedecked from one to n > Commingled in an endless Markov chain! > > Come, every frustrum longs to be a cone > And every vector dreams of matrices. > Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze: > It whispers of a more ergodic zone. > > In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space > Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways. > Our asymptotes no longer out of phase, > We shall encounter, counting, face to face. > > I'll grant thee random access to my heart, > Thou'lt tell me all the constants of thy love; > And so we two shall all love's lemmas prove, > And in our bound partition never part. > > For what did Cauchy know, or Christoffel, > Or Fourier, or any Bools or Euler, > Wielding their compasses, their pens and rulers, > Of thy supernal sinusoidal spell? > > Cancel me not - for what then shall remain? > Abscissas some mantissas, modules, modes, > A root or two, a torus and a node: > The inverse of my verse, a null domain. > > Ellipse of bliss, converge, O lips divine! > the product o four scalars is defines! > Cyberiad draws nigh, and the skew mind > Cuts capers like a happy haversine. > > I see the eigenvalue in thine eye, > I hear the tender tensor in thy sigh. > Bernoulli would have been content to die, > Had he but known such a^2 cos 2 phi! > > ---------------------------------------- > from "The Cyberiad" by Stanislaw Lem Amazing!