M & D Deep Duck and deeper Dog.
Mark Kohut
mark.kohut at gmail.com
Wed Jan 14 07:53:03 CST 2015
Ah, lack of thorough research shows one up.
Thanks, Monte.
like the gag and esp your linking to another...
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Pynchon Wiki is your friend, Mark:
>
> Freshman calculus gag. The antiderivative or integral of the function 1/x is
> the function logarithm of x. Written (integral sign) 1/x dx = log x.
> Substitute (Book) for x. Answer: log (Book) = logbook.
>
> The same gag appears in GR: 'integral of 1 over cabin d cabin = Log cabin +
> c = houseboat'.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> pp. 18--19 Another Tempest allusion.
>> 'Does the dog know, Where the Bee Sucks?"
>>
>> Then there is THIS: 'What is the integral of
>> One over (Book) d (Book)?
>>
>> That is a delta there, yes? delta is VERY P, RIGHT?
>>
>> P.19 SEE DIRAC DELTA FUNCTION...
>>
>>
>> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>>
>> The Dirac delta function is a non-physical, singularity function with
>> the ... The Dirac delta function (also known as the impulse function)
>> can be defined as the ...
>>
>> You smart scientists can finish the sentence above, I just want to
>> point to the word
>> 'singularity', at least another association of uniqueness?
>>
>> And what means (Book) d (Book)?
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