At The MATH Art Museum On Minus 4th Street

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Michaelangelo Pistoletto
Quadro Pranzo

The museum docent translated Quadro Panzo into English:
"Area of a Circle," said Pete Thagrus.

"Not true," exclaimed Litra Lee, the art critic,
"It means Framework Lunch!"

"I'm sorry, sir, but Pistoletto solicits the passion of a viewer,
not a critic. As a passionate observer of MATH art,"
said the docent, "What I see in the middle of this sculpture
is the pi symbol."

"Of course," said the art critic, "people eat pie with their lunch."

"That is true, of course, and a valid observation but pi–
without the e–has no calories. It looks like this: π
It is the ratio of distance around a circle to the distance
across a circle."

"Continue, please."

"The π symbol is flanked by two rectangular squares."

"Isn't 'rectangular squares' a redundancy."

"Yes, it is. Therefore, we abbreviate it r-square..."

"Don't tell me. Together, the symbols represent π r-squared"

"Exactly! Because the r morphs into the symbol
for the radius thingy and the resultant effect
of this MATH art is a formula:


"But Ms. Lee, you are free to interpret Pistoletto's sculpture
as Framework Lunch...For inspiring this dialog,
The MATH Art Museum has a gift for you."

"Is it a free pass to the museum?"

"No. This laminated document is the history
of the GodFather of Math."

"Thank you very much, Mr. Thagrus.


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Footnotes
The Lewis Carroll School of Logic will be eternally grateful if Litra Lee shares
the laminated document with a docent–or art critic– at a museum in Manhattan.

Thank you, MAM!
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