I wrote a letter to Nana last night, my grandmother-in-law. And I included a small diagram of D8, the group of symmetries of a square.
I encouraged her to "look for patterns."
Poor woman... all she did was send me birthday money!!
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Yes, it's a horrible torture for such a crime as sending money. We'll have to go visit her to set things straight. She'll probably feed us. I've always liked her.
I am a retired mathematics graduate student, a craver of beauty, a suitor of wisdom, a lunatic with reason; a poet without verse, writer-want-to-be, musician-wish-I-were, symmetry-loving seeker of the abstract, the elegant, the transcendent, the divine. I love my babies and my husband, good coffee, late night talks with long (and never)-lost friends, watching the sun set from my disheveled balcony, tulips, Rich Mullins, Bob Dylan, U2, Brancusi, Picasso, Chaim Potok, C.S. Lewis, T.S. Eliot, designing and not finishing quilts, vacuuming, and Peace.
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Yes, it's a horrible torture for such a crime as sending money. We'll have to go visit her to set things straight. She'll probably feed us. I've always liked her.
Be careful sending such powerful mathematics to Nana. They, like cucumbers, might give her gas. :o)
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