This space recently
reviewed a book by a German physicist who spends a lot of time on issues connected to the concept of mathematical beauty. Most of us didn't encounter that idea when we took math, unless we really got into the subject. A mathematician has a slightly different view of beauty when he or she refers to an equation instead of a painting, natural scenic view or a person.
Turns out math can do a lot of things, like be a
limerick. Math blogger "zorn-lemon" created the following equation:
The equation, when read in words, can be made into a limerick poem:
The integral of inverse two z
Taken over a circle, size e
Divided by i
Times square root of pi
Gives you gamma of one-sixth times three
My appreciation for this particular move does not mean I in any way understand the equation in either format.
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