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Zeno Of Elea: A Dichotomy, Joseph Chaney Aug 2023

Zeno Of Elea: A Dichotomy, Joseph Chaney

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

This two-part poem interprets Zeno's paradoxes as dimensions of a paradoxical view of reality.


From Building To Dwelling: Unfolding Infinity Through Bioregional Fulfillment, Sanjana Bhatnagar Jan 2023

From Building To Dwelling: Unfolding Infinity Through Bioregional Fulfillment, Sanjana Bhatnagar

Pitzer Senior Theses

The causes of anthropogenic climate change touch every feature of our modern-day existences. Approaches to sustainability tend to focus on material actions, but unsustainable practices are guided by an ontological orientation of individuality and human exceptionalism. This thesis provides an alternate account of being that decenters individuality through weaving the metaphysics of Fazang of the Huayan School of Mahayana Buddhism with the metaphysics of Martin Heidegger. To encompass the whole of the relational network that constitutes and conditionally defines our existence, I expand Heidegger’s account of locales as relational sites which are put forth solely by humans to an account …


Doughnut At The End Of Space, Deborah Coy Jul 2022

Doughnut At The End Of Space, Deborah Coy

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

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The Aleph Of Borges And The Paradise Of Cantor, Raffaella Mulas Jul 2022

The Aleph Of Borges And The Paradise Of Cantor, Raffaella Mulas

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

The mathematician Georg Cantor, the writer Jorge Luis Borges, and the protagonist of Borges' short story The Aleph, Carlos Argentino Daneri, are seen here as three pieces of a single puzzle. We put these pieces together and we look at the surprising figure that we obtain.


Irrational Infinity, Ricky Chen Jan 2019

Irrational Infinity, Ricky Chen

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

A short whimsical poem on the cardinality of irrational numbers.


Affinity For Infinity, Pam Lewis Jul 2017

Affinity For Infinity, Pam Lewis

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

Infinity is an infinitely perplexing concept. In these poems I explore various facets. The first one, Affinity for Infinity, is just silly. In Geometry, I take a more serious, but no more enlightening, approach. Odd Odds, Chaos Theory, and Recalculation touch on the areas of probability, chaos, and emotional and social processes, respectively, all dealing with the infinite possibilities that somehow collapse into the one we experience.


Infinity, Carmen Fodoreanu May 2014

Infinity, Carmen Fodoreanu

CGU MFA Theses

My current paintings are not finite objects. They test the quantum world of possibilities by exploring the idea of continuity and change. They generate, with each viewer, a state of self-reflection that in exchange promotes a wide range of unpredictable feelings and reactions that became thoughts and beliefs. For a painting of mine, there are multiple or infinite solutions and I, along with the viewers, search for answers. To suggest this state of infinity I extend the paint from the actual canvas onto the walls that host it. My paintings present no borders, no frames: just fluidity.