A personal favorite of mine

"since feeling is first

who pays any attention

to the syntax of things

will never wholly kiss you;

wholly to be a fool

while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,

and kisses are a better fate

than wisdom

lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry

—the best gesture of my brain is less than

your eyelids' flutter which says

we are for each other: then

laugh, leaning back in my arms

for life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis"

--- e. e. cummings

Life is more than the form of its syntax.

Introduction

Hi. My name's Dan. I'm a student at Stevens Institute of Technology with a profound curiosity for the rigorous sciences: Logic, Mathematics, and Computer Science (and a slowly but surely incubating interest in Physics). I've never been much of a blogger before, but I've figured that I'll give it a try.

My intention is to use this blog as a sort of journal to record fascinating things that I learn, whether they be about set theory, C++, topology, automata theory, the history of twentieth century mathematics, Haskell, or whatever else piques my interest. I'll start things off by making a few posts about what I've been reading about over Winter break these past few days. The length of posts will certainly vary, and I'll try to make them accessible to those unfamiliar with the technical material (though in some cases I make no promises).

Also...Merry Christmas.