Today, while skimming through my Scripta Mathematica volume files, I discovered the poem ” Ode to an Exponential Curve” by Elmer Brill. The poem was published in Issue 2 Volume 6 of Scripta Mathematica (you can download the PDF file containing Volume 6 here). In this post I mainly want to transcribe the poem. Maybe… Continue reading Ode to e, Exponential Curves, Logarithm and the Slide Rule
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Claudian Epigram on the Heavenly Sphere of Archimedes
Recently I discovered on Internet Archive Charles Hutton’s “A mathematical and philosophical dictionary”. Hutton’s mathematical dictionary is one of the earliest dictionaries that focused on the mathematical sciences. In this post I just want to transcribe an epigram written by Claudian about a sphere of glass created by Archimedes that showed the motions of the… Continue reading Claudian Epigram on the Heavenly Sphere of Archimedes