http://www.metafilter.com/tags/conicsection Posts tagged with 'conicsection' at MetaFilter. Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:00:24 -0800 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:00:24 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/86137/The%2Dcrying%2Dof%2Dx2%2Dxy%2Dy2%2D49 <a href="http://people.math.jussieu.fr/~harris/Pynchon.pdf">"Pynchon, postmodern author, is commonly said to have a non-linear narrative style. No one seems to have taken seriously the possibility, to be explored in this essay, that his narrative style might in fact be <em>quadratic</em>."</a> Number theorist <a href="http://people.math.jussieu.fr/~harris/">Michael Harris</a> on Pynchon and <a href="http://mathdemos.gcsu.edu/mathdemos/family_of_functions/conic_gallery.html">conic sections</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.86137 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:00:24 -0800 againsttheday books conic conicsection curves ellipse hyperbola litcrit literarycriticism literature math novels parabola pynchon quadratic escabeche