Thanks Gary for your response.
I am by training a mathematician and have earned my living as such. I have
always toyed with the idea of trying to blend the two forms , mathematics
and poetry. The results of this is the slight;y abstruse references in the
first strophe.
Aleph-null is the cardinality of first and smallest countable infinity.
Aleph is the first letter of the Hebrew word Ein Sof which is the Hebrew
concept of the infinite light of God. Null is what is left of an empty set
when 'nothing' is taken away. Ein sof is also the marriage of
contradictions, the wedding of male and female, etc.
Now for me these are all wonderful ideas to play around with but so
difficult to put into a poem, requiring as it must some shared knowledge
which is at best esoteric.
Hence I doodle with the ideas. Arthur.
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From: "Gary Blankenship" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: new Sub: Maths Lecture Doodles
Blurred riffle of pad tumbles curled shavings, drifts of dust.
Neighbour watches neighbour; considers one-to-one correspondence;
an elbow below a cotton sleeve crooks in whorls and dimples,
glow of down on arm and cheek, the knot of hair, a puzzled sash,
pert arch of brow, pencil gnawed in thought.
Arthur, captures the mood well, needs a bit more him/her interplay.
Smiles.
Gary
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