Little Written

(That was just the first stanza, by the way. There's more!)

(A shame I can't read it in the original Polish, of course, but credit to the translator, Michael Kandel.)

"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!" #maths #poem #mathspoem #mathpoem

In a chapter called "The First Sally (A) or, Trurl's Electronic Bard", one of the inventors builds a machine that can write poetry and his rival challenges it to write "a love poem... expressed in the language of pure mathematics." #maths #poem #mathspoem #mathpoem

Currently reading 'The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age', by Stanislaw Lem (1965). A beautifully bizarre book about two inventors who create strange machines in a neverending contest of one-up-manship.

And if you're at the @Tate Modern at 13:30 today, you should also catch this 10min talk from @bringyourownsun on a piece of Magic Realism from Weimar Germany: #TateTalks

EXIT STRATEGY: A puzzle game. No #maths required, though you should set your frustration threshold fairly high... mathistopheles.co.uk/puzzles… #puzzle #textadventure #textgame #interactivefiction (Requires #Python 3)

You can read 'The Gernsbach Continuum', the William Gibson #scifi short story discussed in the new @thegloballab ep, here: web.archive.org/web/20070217… #scicomm

New ep of @thegloballab: @walled_city, @Bonnie_0000, @ComplexityWise & I talk about the links between #scifi & the reality of future cities: soundcloud.com/the-global-la… #scicomm @CASAUCL

The new edition of @FryRsquared & my Christmas maths book #IndisputableSanta is out today! Hooray! #Christmaths #maths #xmas

Chance to win a copy of #IndisputableSanta over in @FryRsquared land: #Christmaths xitter.cf/FryRsquared/status/804…