A line, a circle, a square and a triangle,
decided to have a party,
Line tried to measure the length of all,
circle tried the circumference,
triangle tried the angles
and the square tried equality
It is not easy to measure or
measure up to others
but still we do it like
geometric figures!
Are we two dimensional?
decided to have a party,
Line tried to measure the length of all,
circle tried the circumference,
triangle tried the angles
and the square tried equality
It is not easy to measure or
measure up to others
but still we do it like
geometric figures!
Are we two dimensional?
5 comments:
Geometry is coordinated with numbers and gets extended into third and fourth dimensions of space and time in Calculus.
But the question remains...Do numbers correspond to real life?
Who knows...may be it is only a belief...
"One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous."
Robert M. Pirsig
I think we can prove or disprove anything by outsmarting others by approaching it from the opposite pole. Inductive and deductive inquiry - the tendency is to keep one above the other and not travel with both. I feel that happens inter personally all the time as well. And that is what I mean by this poem
Same thing can be said to the very idea of truth itself...
Math and Poetry are two different ways of dealing with it.
There are people who say that there is no truth out there waiting to be discovered or expressed either by Math or Poetry.
Anyway, we always do it!
We need a degree of certainty and also some kind of a meaning to work with and make sense of life...
But what is life?
Ya agreed :-)
what is truth?
Is it serendipitous?
is the world I perceive real for you as well?
what we know about anything is it a fact or a convincing theory of a fact?
the questions are endless I think. I am enjoying making meaning of it all with people like Wolffe, Mcfarlene, Resnick and you :-)
Thus far of beauty and pleasing forms
Which man's untutored fancy,from the scenes
Imperfect of this ever changing world
Creates;and views, enamoured.
-Akenside:Pleasures of the imagination(1744)
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