Mathematics Club

PITCH FOR MATHS CLUB for 8.February 2024

Do you sometimes get strange images running around in your head?
Images composed of circles, ovals, rectangles and triangles?
Has anyone ever told you that your pivot point is a bit off center?
If the answer to any of the above is yes, then you too might be ECCENTRIC.

I was talking to an old friend from St. Louis, Missouri, Chuck Berry,
and I asked him
“Chuck, do you ever consider coming to MATHS CLUB of SCIENCE CIRCLE?”
and Chuck said these words to me:

“Sometimes I do, and then again I think I don’t.
Sometimes I do, then again I think I don’t.
Sometime I will and then again I think I won’t.”
So I looked at my watch and it was 4 PST

Come to Thursday Maths Club ’cause you can believe what you see!”

Then Chuck asked me,
“Tagline, I hear a POINT has NO PARTS and NO MAGNITUDE?
But you say two points determine a line,
and that line is full of points with no height and no width,
but it can be as long as you want to make it?
So how does that line with its length full of points come from things
that have no parts and no magnitude?
Sounds like you got something from nothing coming to something
– I always heard that something from nothing’s still nothing!”

I told him,
“Chuck, you come on down to Maths Club up there in the Maths dojo
and we’ll be REELIN’ AND ROCKIN’ in Virtual space,
discussing this for an hour just thinking about it!

We got it that two points determine a long-enough line,
and three points determine a plane all spread out to the horizon
with you standing there at some point of your own choosing.
This plane is is long and wide but has NO THICKNESS
and still you do not fall through to the other side!

So we ask, WHAT DOES A POINT and a LINE DETERMINE?
Some answers depend on the ECCENTRICITY!

Now just look at yourself! You know about ECCENTRICITY just by how you are living your life!

So early this morning when I came out of this dream, I was left with a simple idea I personally had never
before seen,
and that was this:

Let the initial M represent a SPACE CURVE from a CONIC SECTION which we will name Molly.

The LIMIT of Molly as ECCENTRICITY e APPROACHES ZERO is a CIRCLE!

Lim M = CIRCLE
e → 0

So come on up to the Maths Dojo at 4 PDT on Thursday and step into our circle and we’ll take it to the
limit, and find out what for!