Sarah Glaz
Autor von Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics
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the war of symbols, lasting five generations,
between The Continent and British Isles,
involving deeply hurt sensibilities,
and grievous blows to national pride;
on such weighty issues as publication priority
and working systems of logical notation:
whether the derivative must be denoted by a “prime,”
an apostrophe atop the right hand corner of a function,
evaluated by Newton’s fluxions method, ∆y/∆x;
or by a formal quotient of differentials dy/dx,
intimating future possibilities,
terminology that guides the mind.
The genius of both men lies in grasping simplicity
out of the swirl of ideas guarded by Chaos,
becoming channels, thorugh which her light poured clarity
on the relation binding slope of tangent line
to area of planar region lying below a curve,
The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus,
basis of modern mathematics, claims nothing more.
While Leibneiz – suave, debonair, philosopher and politician,
published his proof to jubilant cheers of continental followers,
the Isles seethed unnerved,
they knew of Newton’s secret files,
locked in deep secret drawers –
for fear of theft and stranger paranoid delusions,
hiding an earlier version of the same result.
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Calculus – Latin for small stones,
primitive means of calculation; evolving to abaci;
later to principles of enumeration advanced by widespread use
of the Hindu-Arabic numeral system employed to this day,
as practiced by algebristas – barbers and bone setters in Medieval Spain;
before Calculus came the ∑ (sigma) notation –
sums of infinite yet countable series;
and culminating in addition of uncountable many dimensionless line segments –
the integral ∫ -- snake,
first to thirst for knowledge, at any price.… (mehr)