Ultimately, Mathematics is Poetry
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Poetry Inspired by Mathematics
This article explores one of the many manifestations of the mysterious link between mathematics and poetry—the phenomenon of poetry inspired by mathematics. Such poetry responds to the mathematical concerns and accomplishments of the day, be it a ground breaking definition or technique, a long standing unsolved conjecture, or a celebrated theorem. The motivation for writing the poems, their mat...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal
سال: 1991
ISSN: 1065-8297
DOI: 10.5642/hmnj.199101.06.16