In chapter 96 of Moby Dick
"It is a place also for profound mathematical
meditation. It was in the left hand try-pot of the
Pequod, with the soapstone diligently circling
round me, that I was first indirectly struck by the
remarkable fact, that in geometry all bodies gliding
along the cycloid, my soapstone for example, will
descend from any point in precisely the same time."
"It is a place also for profound mathematical
meditation. It was in the left hand try-pot of the
Pequod, with the soapstone diligently circling
round me, that I was first indirectly struck by the
remarkable fact, that in geometry all bodies gliding
along the cycloid, my soapstone for example, will
descend from any point in precisely the same time."
"Once in a while
You get shown the light
in the strangest of places
if you look at it right"
from the song Scarlet
Begonias by Robert
Hunter and Jerry Garcia
You get shown the light
in the strangest of places
if you look at it right"
from the song Scarlet
Begonias by Robert
Hunter and Jerry Garcia
In its simplest form what Melville meant was a
ball rolling down the arc of the cycloid arrives at
the bottom at the same time no matter where it
started from.
ball rolling down the arc of the cycloid arrives at
the bottom at the same time no matter where it
started from.
For students who
occasionally neglect to
put their name on
homework: in 1696 Sir
Isaac Newton was well
past his mathematical
prime, so as to speak,
and, having elucidated
the laws of the
Universe, was working
as Master of the Mint.
He was challenged by
Liebniz and the famed
Bernoulli brothers -
Jakob and Johan.
Newton worked most
of the night and sent
off an unsigned proof.
Liebniz knew only one
mind was capable of
such transcendental
insight. He said, "One
knows the lion by his
paw."
So a good [math]
teacher ought to be
able to figure out who
did not sign the
homework .
occasionally neglect to
put their name on
homework: in 1696 Sir
Isaac Newton was well
past his mathematical
prime, so as to speak,
and, having elucidated
the laws of the
Universe, was working
as Master of the Mint.
He was challenged by
Liebniz and the famed
Bernoulli brothers -
Jakob and Johan.
Newton worked most
of the night and sent
off an unsigned proof.
Liebniz knew only one
mind was capable of
such transcendental
insight. He said, "One
knows the lion by his
paw."
So a good [math]
teacher ought to be
able to figure out who
did not sign the
homework .
