from “The Cyberiad” by Stanislaw Lem:<\/p>\n
Come, let us hasten to a higher plane,
\nWhere dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn,
\nTheir indices bedecked from one to n,
\nCommingled in an endless Markov chain!<\/p>\n
Come, every frustum longs to be a cone,
\nAnd every vector dreams of matrices.
\nHark to the gentle gradient of the breeze:
\nIt whispers of a more ergodic zone.<\/p>\n
In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space
\nLet superscripts and subscripts go their ways.
\nOur asymptotes no longer out of phase,
\nWe shall encounter, counting, face to face.<\/p>\n
I’ll grant thee random access to my heart,
\nThou’lt tell me all the constants of thy love;
\nAnd so we two shall all love’s lemmas prove,
\nAnd in our bound partition never part.<\/p>\n
For what did Cauchy know, or Christoffel,
\nOr Fourier, or any Boole or Euler,
\nWielding their compasses, their pens and rulers,
\nOf thy supernal sinusoidal spell?<\/p>\n
Cancel me not–for what then shall remain?
\nAbscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes,
\nA root or two, a torus and a node:
\nThe inverse of my verse, a null domain.<\/p>\n
Ellipse of bliss, converge, O lips divine!
\nThe product of our scalars is defined!
\nCyberiad draws nigh, and the skew mind
\nCuts capers like a happy haversine.<\/p>\n
I see the eigenvalue in thine eye,
\nI hear the tender tensor in thy sigh.
\nBernoulli would have been content to die,
\nHad he but known such a2 cos 2 phi!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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