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author | Silvio Rhatto <rhatto@riseup.net> | 2016-01-16 19:15:59 -0200 |
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Books: cyberiad and perfect spy
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diff --git a/books/cyberiad.mdwn b/books/cyberiad.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..753cb68 --- /dev/null +++ b/books/cyberiad.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +[[!meta title="The Cyberiad"]] + +## Trechos + +--- + + Come, every frustum longs to be a cone, + And every vector dreams of matrices. + Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze: + It whispers of a more ergodic zone. + -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad" + +--- + + Come, let us hasten to a higher plane, + Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, + Their indices bedecked from one to n, + Commingled in an endless Markov chain! + + Come, every frustum longs to be a cone, + And every vector dreams of matrices. + Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze: + It whispers of a more ergodic zone. + + In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space + Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways. + Our asymptotes no longer out of phase, + We shall encounter, counting, face to face. + -- The Cyberiad |