How, though, can we be
sure that this process really
does converge to x?
From the Princeton Companion to Mathematics
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Category: High School
Remainders
The remainders get
smaller each time but cannot
go below zero.
From the Princeton Companion to Mathematics
found using Haiku Finder software and selected by Angela Brett
Magical Maths: Provoking Curiosity – Ben Sparks and Rob Eastaway
Example magic tricks,
Do you want know how they work?,
Maths is the answer!
@InformalTeacher
Summary of the video presentation Magical Maths: Provoking Curiosity presented by Ben Sparks and Rob Eastaway at The Complete Mathematics Conference. Haiku originally posted at the Informal Maths Teacher blog.
Cartesian Plane
an abstract canvas
where geometry sketches
algebra’s portrait
Ben Orlin
Math with Bad Drawings
The Mathematician’s Haiku Book
Corollary
the nimble speedboat
riding along in the wake
of a massive ship
Ben Orlin
Math with Bad Drawings
The Mathematician’s Haiku Book
Application
the strange surrender
when a practicality
yields to a theory
Ben Orlin
Math with Bad Drawings
The Mathematician’s Haiku Book
Inverses
foes that cancel out
leaving empty battlefields
wherever they meet
Ben Orlin
Math with Bad Drawings
The Mathematician’s Haiku Book
Model
simple little toy
cupped in the hands of children
like a tiny world
Ben Orlin
Math with Bad Drawings
The Mathematician’s Haiku Book
Infinity
a thing with no end
not even the distant one
you’re picturing now
Ben Orlin
Math with Bad Drawings
The Mathematician’s Haiku Book
Paradox
a wound that logic
left to its own devices
inflicts on itself
Ben Orlin
Math with Bad Drawings
The Mathematician’s Haiku Book