#poetry ![[96b0199f-8d19-4eb3-af7d-82dcb49471e6-0-4062326166.png]] %%This is a mathematical paradox displaying a silver smoke, cloud, light, 4K, ultra high quality, painting by Escher%% In geometry of three dimensions, Toiling along space's winding way, It finds the law of parallelograms, The secret of the cube, and learns The arching of the cycloid's curve, The tangent's swiftest speed. ![[f55dd1dd-09a1-4e42-a774-4c58daa312f7-0-2993519181.png]] Nowhere is rest, but everywhere The elements of change unite; And as the Smoke is drawn aloft, So mathematics, pure and white, Joins heaven and earth in perfect harmony, A science of the infinite. ![[d083378d-e42f-4e15-bcfb-559048db56e1-0-672386256.png]] Darkening the air with dust and smoke, It penetrates the secret heart Of nature, and uncovers there The hidden forces that control The world of matter and of life. This is the power of linear algebra. ![[734151e5-8e59-4c8f-82e4-d04cd12d366b-0-1722912859.png]]