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The World’s Greatest Limerick

Posted in Nonsense on December 13th, 2005 11 Comments »

I am short on time with preparing to give and grade finals. (Aww, poor professor. . .) But, I’d thought I’d share with each of you my favorite limerick of all time:

TRANSLATION:
The integral z-squared dz
From one to the cube root of 3
Times the cosine
Of three pi over 9
Is the log of the cube [...]

Spiritual Principle #2

Posted in Spiritual Principles on December 13th, 2005 No Comments »

Discretize Spaces
My last entry mentioned that the next post would focus on why I find approximation theory so interesting. I’ve been chewing on an idea / illustration for some time now that I want to run by my readers. Much of my research in has been spent in using finite dimensional function spaces [...]