The blog posts highlighted here consist of limericks, puns and bad jokes. I invented the term Poettary to describe my pottering around with a format of a poem. The `gb’ on the left is an ambigam made by my friend Punya Mishra for me.
You can choose to see posts of a particular type, or browse through the posts below.
- Math Poettary
- Ambigram Poettary – Accompanyments to Punya Mishra’s ambigrams
- Of Art and Math – Ambigrams – Articles written with Punya Mishra published in At Right Angles. Actually, they cover almost every topic that everyone should know – Paradoxes, Infinity, etc.
- Limericks – Some of a biographical nature
- Book reviews – Well, a couple of serious ones mixed with some not so serious. Of course, some are seriously serious.
Of Art and Math: A series of articles with Punya Mishra
Right Angle: One of the many ambigrams made by Punya Mishra that appear in this series of…
Keep readingArun Bhaiyya — A limerick
Texas ka famous letter writer, our Arun Bhaiya, He loves to cook large amounts of lobhia, Eating those…
Keep readingPunya – A nearly Palindromic poem
Punya ~ Love your palindromes, everything the poetry, ambigrammed symmetry. An inspiration- your blog. Hope you keep up…
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A schoolboy, named Sunil Mittal, What goes through his adolescent mind? Here’s a clue: The movies playing in…
Keep readingThe q-disease
Special Functions, by Andrews, Askey and Roy. Here’s a belated review, and a thank you. ~*~*~*~*~*~ Beauty in mathematics, said…
Keep readingDesign II
Design II Ambigram by punyamishra A great design: Everything fits in nicely into one complete whole. Not a…
Keep readingParadox
Paradox Ambigram by punyamishra All Cretans are liars said Epiminedes, a Cretan, a classic Paradox. If Epiminedes tells…
Keep readingWatson-Crick
Watson-Crick Ambigram by punyamishra Watson and Crick show what fun it is to be a scientist. What fun…
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Internet Ambigram by punyamishra The Internet inking pacts across the world. Linking and connecting all humanity. Shakily connecting…
Keep readingInternet II
Internet II Ambigram by punyamishra Small knots woven together become a net. Flexible, stable, and very strong. Small…
Keep readingDouglas R Hofstadter
Sides-reversed-is Ambigram by punyamishra Douglas R Hofstadter sides reversed is Retdatsfoh R Salgoud sides reversed is Douglas R…
Keep readingDog
DogOriginally uploaded by punyamishra A dog,wags his tail,seeks attention.And licks your face,without asking foryour permission. Comes up closeand…
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GodOriginally uploaded by punyamishra GODlooks the samewhichever wayyou look at it. Look down from the topor up from…
Keep readingMath Poettary – Infinite
Check out the post here. A brief explanation The post mentions the sphere as a “one-point compactification” of…
Keep readingDarwin
Darwin Ambigram by punyamishra “Beauty in mathematics,” says Polya, “is seeing the truth without effort.” Polya’s dictum applies to…
Keep readingInfinite
Infinite Originally uploaded by punyamishra Infinite plane made compact becomes a sphere. Still infinite, but compact, somehow closer…
Keep readingThe Modulus Function
Every differentiable functionis also continuous.”This does not mean,”the Modulus Functionpoints out,”that every continuous functionis differentiable too.” Math Poettary…
Keep readingNot differentiable
A continuous functionGoing along nicelywithout lifting pencilfrom paper. Ouch!This sharp pointgot me,its not differentiable. Math Poettary #4
Keep readingContinuous function
A continuous function,draw it withoutpicking up pencilfrom paper. At all points,the left hand limitthe same as the right…
Keep readingNo-x-in-Nixon
No-x-in-NixonOriginally uploaded by punyamishra NO X IN NIXON A palindromebut False. NO X IN NIXONsides reversed isNO X…
Keep readingSense-non-Sense
Sense-Non-SenseOriginally uploaded by punyamishra Image inNo Og de Nash,No Jabberwock soever. No punya at all.No Ji,No Bee,No ambi,just…
Keep readingLove
LoveOriginally uploaded by punyamishra Fools marry the girl they love,Wise men love the girl they marry,goes an old…
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