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Arithmetica

by Diophant from Alexandria

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head

holds a

doorway to

a place where dreams are

everything real and nothing else

is left for my imagination to uncover

#rabbit holes #diophantus #alexandria #leonardo #pisa

are

always

dreaming of

tomorrow today

while trying to live yesterday

are our minds torn asunder by the toroidal sway

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Pierre de Fermat – Scientist of the Day

Pierre Fermat, a French mathematician, was born Aug. 17, 1601.

The gods granted him childhood for a sixth of his life, and a twelfth for his adolescence. A barren marriage took up a seventh of...

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Apa Itu Aljabar dan Siapa Penemunya?

Oleh: Hendra Gunawan* (Matematikawan) Aljabar merupakan salah satu cabang matematika yang berurusan dengan objek matematika (katakanlah bilangan yang tidak diketahui nilai persisnya), dan menggunakan lambang seperti x dan y ketika mempelajarinya. Dalam aljabar, sifat-sifat yang dimiliki oleh operasi yang dapat dilakukan pada objek tersebut (bayangkan penjumlahan dan perkalian) dipelajari, dan…

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Atolondrado

This afternoon was spent recklessly, which is how the above Spanish word translates roughly, and there were digressions that led to more curiosities, more eccentric forms of intertextuality. The earlier article "escondido", Spanish for "hidden", took me to Latin roots for the word, "abscondita", which leads back to English "abscond", to leave hurriedly and secretively. These little terms culturally losing one essence and forming another are fascinating qualities in the Latin languages. Once, a friend described a particular word, "entranas", which refers to the sense of self in Spanish but would be closest to "entrails" in English which has unpleasant, morbid connotations. Yet, in one language a meaning may have lost itself in reference, in cultural attitudes towards life or death, and language itself, even one that appeared homogenous and pertaining to the rules of grammar, is largely insinuated in private experience, the perception of individuals.

All the while these diversions took me to different places, especially an encounter with the original Latin meaning of "Calculus", which translates as "pebble" and originated with doubt as the possibilities of infinitesemal patterns within describing matter were gradually entertained, given certain principles only with Pierre de Fermat in the seventeenth century, who explored earlier writings by Diophantus, who formed theories on irreducibility in cubic shapes and clearly relates to the existence of multiplicities in language; obviously there is grammar, but independently language communicate infinitesemal forms and complications. The term "pebble" perhaps came from the rippling effect upon water, the obviousness that a larger ripple was created by something smaller.

Of course there were other digressions which were not quite digressions but moments of going from one topic seamlessly to another, and understanding that each has its own differences but its own similarities. Now a moment of crossover into the clear and uncompromising work of Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan, which has been so useful to making crossovers between different disciplines:

"Our whole life from womb to tomb is in fact an iterim stage in the life cycle of tiny fused cells. Animals emerge into another dimension, visible life and consciousness, only to return via sex to their ancient single-celled, microbial state. Death is the price we all pay for this ancient history of multicellular compounding, for this inability of hungry protists to undo their Proterozoic entanglements. What "dies" is the body, the adult flesh after it has released into the water or body fluid the protest-like tailed sperm and chubbier egg. Animal life did not appear de novo, but from protoctist predecessors. Protoctists with elaborate cycles of fertilisation, multicellularity, and meiosis became animals." - p130, What is Life? by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan