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Contact Information: Announcements: Marie Bruley Merced College 3600 M St., Merced CA 95348-2898 Study Tip, try Super Brain Yoga The semester begins August 18th! (209) 386-6674 Office:  Science Building 213-2nd floor                   bruley.m@mccd.edu Campus Mail:  Slip it under my door or Box #20 in administration (Make sure to put my name at the top or it may never get to me!) "Perhaps I could best describe my experience of doing mathematics in terms of entering a dark mansion. You go into the first room and it’s dark, completely dark. You stumble around, bumping into furniture. Gradually, you learn where each piece of furniture is. And finally, after six months or so, you find the light switch and turn it on. Suddenly, it’s all illuminated and you can see exactly where you were. Then you enter the next dark room…." -Professor Andrew Wiles

Florists

I’m sure that I will always be
A lonely number like root three

The three is all that’s good and right,
Why must my three keep out of sight
Beneath the vicious square root sign,
I wish instead I were a nine

For nine could thwart this evil trick,
with just some quick arithmetic

I know I’ll never see the sun, as 1.7321
Such is my reality, a sad irrationality

When hark! What is this I see,
Another square root of a three

As quietly co-waltzing by,
Together now we multiply
To form a number we prefer,
Rejoicing as an integer

We break free from our mortal bonds
With the wave of magic wands

Our square root signs become unglued
Your love for me has been renewed

-David Feinberg

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