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Mathematical Poem

Sacrifice and Bliss

2006
Published in Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics, edited by Sarah Glaz and JoAnne Growney — A K Peters
Sacrifice and Bliss — the equation: love equals the limit, as ego approaches zero, of one over ego
Sacrifice and Bliss, 2006. love = limego→0 1/ego

Love equals the limit of one over ego, as ego approaches zero. Drive the denominator toward nothing and the value climbs without a ceiling — but you cannot divide by zero, so the limit is approached and never arrived at.

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