Love and Tensor Algebra
from "The Cyberiad" by Stanislaw Lem
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!
Come, every frustrum longs to be a cone
And every vector dreams of matrices.
Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze:
It whispers of a more ergodic zone.
In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space
Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways.
Our asymptotes no longer out of phase,
We shall encounter, counting, face to face.
I'll grant thee random access to my heart,
Thou'lt tell me all the constants of thy love;
And so we two shall all love's lemmas prove,
And in our bound partition never part.
For what did Cauchy know, or Christoffel,
Or Fourier, or any Bools or Euler,
Wielding their compasses, their pens and rulers,
Of thy supernal sinusoidal spell?
Cancel me not - for what then shall remain?
Abscissas some mantissas, modules, modes,
A root or two, a torus and a node:
The inverse of my verse, a null domain.
Ellipse of bliss, converge, O lips divine!
the product o four scalars is defines!
Cyberiad draws nigh, and the skew mind
Cuts capers like a happy haversine.
I see the eigenvalue in thine eye,
I hear the tender tensor in thy sigh.
Bernoulli would have been content to die,
Had he but known such a^2 cos 2 phi!
It seems like quite a few people are getting married now a days, so me and Martin has been in two weddings this spring. Here is from the first, Anita and Tor-Arne in Stavanger.
Anita and Tor-Arne outside the Cathedral in Stavanger. I love Anitas dress!
The day before their wedding we went with Anita and Tor-Arne and two of Anitas friends from CERN to Prekestolen. I have never been there before, because when we where there as children, my parents didnt let us go with them, but they promised us that next time we would, and then we where going to ride ponnies in! My mum still owe me that Ponnie ride! :)
Next one out was Line and Henrik in Bergen! Kine Sofie as bridesmaid. Really fun wedding with a lot of orienteering people!
Gudrun and Mette in Lines wedding. Really cool to see Gudrun again, and all the other people from our class and the orienteering group at NTNUI.
One Thursday Idun sent me an email and asked if me and Martin wanted to go to a river kayak course in Sjoa that weekend. Sure, I said. Fun! Second kayak course this spring. Martin signed us up for sea kayak course earlier this spring, because he was afraid I didn't get out enough with my injured knee, and thought that kayaking is good on the knee. Kayaking is fun! But I must admit that I prefer river kayaking.
Martin in the coooooooold river.
Idun and me.
