Essay writing as graph traversal

As one of the assignments for COMP425 (Computational Logic) we have to write an essay about ‘logic and computation’. We were discussing this in class yesterday, and it was suggested that essay writing is essentially graph traversal (or perhaps flattening). I wonder how true this is.

Fourier’s Song

This is brilliant: Fourier’s Song

Integrate your function times a complex exponential
It’s really not so hard you can do it with your pencil

It can be a little hard to make out what he is singing, so I suggest reading the words as you listen to the song.