What if a group of playwrights used  infinitesmal calculus as a topic for writing plays?

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  A SPECIAL EVENT:

                   MSRI at Monday Night PlayGround!

                6 short new plays inspired by the topic:

                  The Ghosts of Departed Quantities
                  (or, Is the Right Answer Enough?)

                     Berkeley Repertory Theatre
                        2025 Addison Street

                     Monday, February 18, 2008

                             8:00 PM

           (but, don't miss the pre-show discussion at 7PM)

              http://www.playground-sf.org/monday.shtml


    Monday Night PlayGround (now in its 14th season) is a
presentation of 6 short plays written on a common theme.  This coming
Monday, the theme will be a mathematical one:  "The Ghosts of
Departed Quantities (or, Is the Right Answer Enough?)".
      On February 6, a group of mathematicians at MSRI met with
the PlayGround pool of playwrights to try to describe the idea of
infinitesimals, how and why they appeared in calculus, and what the
reaction was, including Bishop Berkeley's famous mocking description
of them as 'ghosts of departed quantities'.  The playwrights engaged
the mathematicians in a discussion of the culture of mathematicians,
proofs, certainty, intuition, and a host of other aspects of the
story that naturally came up in the discussion.
      Then the playwrights went away to think about the dramatic
possibilities that the topic suggested.  They had 5-1/2 days to write a
short play inspired by the topic and 6 of the resulting plays will be
presented this Monday night at Monday Night PlayGround.
      It will be a very interesting evening, so we hope you'll
make plans to attend both the performances (which start at 8) and the
pre-show discussion (which starts at 7) with a panel drawn from the
mathematicians who presented the story and the playwrights who wrote
the plays.
      More information, including where (and how) to buy tickets,
can be found at www.playground-sf.org.