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Mathematical Constance (A Poem Dedicated To Constance Reid), Arthur T. Benjamin
Mathematical Constance (A Poem Dedicated To Constance Reid), Arthur T. Benjamin
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Mathematical Constance (A Poem Dedicated to Constance Reid)
I think that I shall never see
A constant lovelier than e,
Whose digits are too great too state,
They're 2.71828…
And e has such amazing features
It's loved by all (but mostly teachers).
With all of e's great properties
Most integrals are done with … ease.
Theorems are proved by fools like me
But only Euler could make an e.
I suppose, though, if I had to try
To choose another constant, I
Might offer i or phi or pi.
But none of those would satisfy.
Of all the …
An Open Field, Char Miller
An Open Field, Char Miller
Pomona Faculty Publications and Research
It should have been during a similarly punishing and mercurial moment in late twentieth-century San Antonio, enveloped in a "furious storm of rain, of hail, or of snow," that I initially encountered Richard White's seminal historiographical essay. Such a convergence of art, life, and weather pattern might have defied reality, but it would have made for a fabulous narrative opening. That said, like the norther's rush, his article, which I read shortly after its publication in the August 1985 issue of the Pacific Historical Review, blew me away.