by Stanley Anderson » April 16th, 2009, 2:04 pm
I credit at least some of my lifelong interest in mathematics and science to On Beyond Zebra, the book that describes the various "letters" of the alphabet that come after "Z" and sample "words" they are used in. For me it was one of the first examples I ran across that illustrated the (now overused and trivialized) idea of "thinking outside the box", something that is so essential to true mathematical and scientific insight.
--Stanley
…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.