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How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals.

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Life Is Algebraic

twice of x
and less of y
in a factored
equation
life is never
enough...

the search
for the best equation
is never
over....

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

quote by Nikola Tesla
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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

quote by Alan Turing
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Things

Things aint what they used to be now I believe in all extremes
three
Let's never try to solve it babe ~ the equation of you plus me
Things aint what they used to be can you believe it all we've seen
Things aint what they used to be it's theme park living A to Z
Let's never try to solve it babe ~ the equation of you plus me
(chorus)
It's all the same we're here today yesterday is just a dream
It's all the same we figured out what to take and what to leave
For the honey bees
Things aint what they used to be no money and no guarantee
Things aint what they used to be our future's in a cup of China tea
Let's never try to solve it babe ~ the equation of you plus me
(chorus)

song performed by by Heart
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The X And Y

You're own your own now
Touch and go
Like an old proposition
You cover distances
Looking for the right angle
Or way by which you may complete
The equation
To solve the unknown

The equation is like a long river
Without banks
It appears calm but cold

You are an irony
Warm at night
Cold at noon
In the brightness of the whole day
Yiu cover yiur face with your scared hands

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

quote by David Brin
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My Equation Is One Gain To Two Losses

my equation is one gain to two losses!

unbelievables do happen

before my stunned gaze!

the bubbles of dreams of yesterdays

yes, they are buds of reality now!

i ask myself million times

' is it true? am i awake and conscious?

there can no more be disbelief-

two valiant silences tear away the mighty egos

and coo a melody of affection-

how could it be?

' excuse me; i have done you wrong all along'-

'o no..i have nothing in my mind '-

there is no hand shakes

but embrace of hearts in heavy silence!

no postmortems needed;

we are alive to love and affection;

we are no more in mortuary of hatred-

soft peace settles gracefully on my soul.

i salute god for the blessing

but god wears a mischievious smile

your equation is to be ever

one gain equals two losses-

yes, the shocks of two bang on my heart!

i wither again in pain and grief

and say, 'everything must have a meaning

beyond the confines of my knowledge! '

o god when can my equation be

one loss to one gain?

--s.chandra kalaadhar

poem by Sundaram Chandrakalaadhar
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Education

I'm questioning my education
Does my education know what I'm now?
While you're deciding, I've been finding
Looking around in the here and now
If I'd been talking from the beginning, would my fears now be winning?
I'm questioning my own equation
Is my own equation relevant somehow?
The flags a waiving the news is breaking
See the man who cant pick out his own tire
If I'd been talking from the beginning, would my fears now be winning?
A wild world figuring out the answers Ill be in my own dance
Im questioning my education
Rewind and what does it show
Couldve been the truth, it becomes you
Im a seed wondering what grows

song performed by by Pearl Jam
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My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.

quote by Maurice Ravel
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Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

quote by Albert Einstein
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I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation.

quote by Jello Biafra
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The algebra of poetry. For Jim as if.

OK you’ve written 2000 crap poems you say.
Now pack up this arithmetical stuff:

there’s an algebra to poetry:
equations full of unknowns:

for a start, the 2001th poem that you write
will contain 2000 times the…

well it’s a complicated equation:
it starts with the familiar

x for the expression which has improved
a thousandfold since you began;

y stands for the hundreds of times more wise
you’ve since become, by just writing poetry;

zzz is the way, that half-asleep,
an unforgettable word or line can slip into your head;

z too, for zeal and zest, that Muses love
and fly a little closer while you write..

then, it wouldn’t be a real equation without
‘squares’: for all that’s squared within your mind as poetry takes shape;

and brackets: for that intrusive, brilliant phrase
that slips between the wagons of your train of thought,

sometimes so surprising that you’re not too sure
it’s true; but trust it; tomorrow, know it’s right;

and oh so much more to this equation
of knowns equalling unknowns, spelling out a poem;

mass, energy, and the speed of light
writing themselves into some new formula

which only humility may harness;
a light to light the world with words.

poem by Michael Shepherd
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Haiku

I must fess up
to my ignorance
but I thought
Haiku
was some type
of flake
when I was accused
of submitting
short poems
that didn't measure up
to the mathematical equation
of the Haiku
she must have overlooked
my poems
had more lines
than Flinders Street Station.

poem by Vince Gullaci
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When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.

quote by Jesse Ventura
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God is not a dead equation!

quote by Muhammad Iqbal
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My Inspiration

You inspire!
My desire..
To never want another..
To love you now and forever
You are my earth, wind and fire
If u like I could be your salt n' pepa
Because you are my shining star
Whatta man? ? ...a mighty good man is what you are

I love this man
And he loves me
We love each other unconditionally
We are nothing but a simile

That's our equation
I hope you understand my mathematical expression

In this world of imperfections
In my life you bring consummation
So without further ado
This is my proclamation...
'I Love You'

poem by Anita Khelawan
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The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book. But if we remove that from the equation, it's the same impulse and they are equally entitled to their ecstasies and their despair.

quote by Michael Cunningham
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An equation has no meaning for me unless it expresses a thought of GOD.

quote by Srinivasa Ramanujan
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Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.