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The Math Series
"Calculus is a collection of ingenious fallacies."
Michel Rolle

An explanation of the heading of this page: It is the Math Series, as I, radical mathpoet! (okay, so it's actually a factorial, but it looks cooler as emphasis, no?), communicate from One to Infinity, which is part of my conception of the internet.


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Five Poems

Fifth Period Was After Lunch
e to the x

Go ahead:
Exert your influence.
I shall remain
Indelible.
He integrated me
for a while
But I stayed
Me (+ Constant)
So when he differentiated
(he hoped I'd pine)
I came out:
Me.

8:20 pm, 1/21/98
Copyright 1998 by Sharon J. Cichelli
With Respect to Time

I don't want to think
About differentials,
Feeling your lips through formulae.
The beauty of a function
That maps the brightness of M28
Misses the magnitude of
Us.
The change in me
With respect to you
Left me with a slippery slope fallacy;
All my attempts were Crisco.

7:15 pm, 10/20/97
Copyright 1997 by Sharon J. Cichelli
Solving

2Pi Radians:
All the way around,
Encircled.
I wish.
Left with a
U-substitution
Fraught with imaginary numbers,
And it isn't as good.
I've stopped stressing for a sign
That you are my co-
sine
[solving for Why]
'Cause worries are tangential
And derivative
(it's positive).

9:27 pm, 3/23/97
Copyright 1997 by Sharon J. Cichelli
Drill

I.
Asymptotic:
The crush on a friend.
Parallel lines,
Bound fast by the will
Of an axiomatical chaperone.
But, O!
Sweet crystalline tesseract,
Euclid was wrong.
(11/19/96)

II.
but won't be denied.
for now,
with tears that run up
and diagonally,
i find i've divided
by zero.
and we are beaten
hard
for our
Hyperbole.

III.
one
tender
ray
of sunshine
licks raw wounds,
its comfort stinging.
One
over
infinity
is very small.
And when the limit is met,
what will be the sum of the series?

IV.
not even at the origin

V.
New graph paper seems in order.
Hole in the graph--
a tear--
gapes ragged and oozes
But the Curve
Soars off the page
And will continue
Ever On.
(12/5/96)

VI.
Approaching
The Perfect Beauty Of
Infinity.
(12/6/96)

Copyright 1997 by Sharon J. Cichelli
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Sharon J. Cichelli | spyderella@angelfire.com | Spyderella's Lair | September 21, 1999