Showing posts with label Shakespeare Math. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shakespeare Math. Show all posts
Saturday, 23 April 2011
Venn and Shakespeare
Found this one at YofX... saved it for the Bard's Birthday...He shares a birthday with my son Jacques, who also appreciates a little dark humor, so I wanted to wish him a happy birthday as well.So happy Birthday Beaudy...
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Math, Shakespeare, and some good ol' limericks
It's time for the Schools Shakespeare Festival here in Lakenheath, and to get in the mood, without giving up my bias toward mathematics, a few collected themes to celebrate math with a poetic leaning...
First a couple of my favorite math limericks...
This is how the mathematician would see the limerick
And for the others... it reads like this in English:
dozen, a gross, and a score
Plus three times the square root of four Divided by seven Plus five times eleven Is nine squared and not a bit more.
Just down the road at Cambridge is Trinity College, where many of the mathematical greats of England (and the world) were, and still are, trained...
A graduate student at Trinity
Computed the square of infinity.
But it gave him the fidgets
To put down the digits,
So he dropped math and took up divinity.
It turns out that recently John D. Cook posted some "limerick primes" at his Endeavour blog . The rhyme scheme for a limerick is a,a,b,b,a, so a number like 33223 would be a "limerick" number. It turns out that of all the numbers you can write that way, only eight are prime:
so a number like 31314040252566 would be a Sonnet Number... and Cook the Computer Master has found all of the prime versions of those as well. It turns out there are 16,942 sonnet primes, at least according to John, I have not verified that count. John has provided the largest and smallest of them: "the smallest of these primes is 10102323454577. The largest is 98987676505033."
First a couple of my favorite math limericks...
This is how the mathematician would see the limerick
And for the others... it reads like this in English:
dozen, a gross, and a score
Just down the road at Cambridge is Trinity College, where many of the mathematical greats of England (and the world) were, and still are, trained...
A graduate student at Trinity
Computed the square of infinity.
But it gave him the fidgets
To put down the digits,
So he dropped math and took up divinity.
It turns out that recently John D. Cook posted some "limerick primes" at his Endeavour blog . The rhyme scheme for a limerick is a,a,b,b,a, so a number like 33223 would be a "limerick" number. It turns out that of all the numbers you can write that way, only eight are prime:
- 11551
- 33113
- 33223
- 33773
- 77447
- 77557
- 99119
- 99559
a-b-a-b c-d-c-d e-f-e-f g-g
so a number like 31314040252566 would be a Sonnet Number... and Cook the Computer Master has found all of the prime versions of those as well. It turns out there are 16,942 sonnet primes, at least according to John, I have not verified that count. John has provided the largest and smallest of them: "the smallest of these primes is 10102323454577. The largest is 98987676505033."
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