Friday, April 3, 2015

Mathematics and poetry -- are the same ! ! !

Last week the Art Works Blog posted an interview with mathematician, poet, and translator, Enriqueta Carrington.  You will want to follow the link and read the whole thing.  Here is a paragraph:

quoting Enriqueta Carrington:
Mathematics and poetry are the same thing,
 or one is a translation of the other.

Well, perhaps that is an overstatement; 
but both math and poetry are about beautiful patterns, 
about creating, gazing at, and sharing them, 
and about appreciating those created by others.
It is not necessary to be a great mathematician or a great poet 
to enjoy this beauty, as I can tell you from my own experience.

Several years ago, at a time near the beginning of this poetry-math blog, in the posting for April 8, 2010, is a pantoum by Carrington.  And here is another of hers, this time a Fibonacci poem -- whose lines increase in word-count that matches the first eight Fibonacci numbers:  1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21.

Fibonacci’s Nightmare     by Enriqueta Carringon

A
couple
of bunnies
could never harm
anything, if we allow them
to hop out to freedom in the wild;

wilderness is resilient, and one couple is no more than two adorable little
rabbits who deserve liberty; their eyes are so big, their noses so wiggly and they are so sweet, cuddly, and lustful.         

Previous postings of Fibonacci-count poems include April 19, 2010, April 29, 2010, October 31, 2010, and August 31, 2012.

2 comments:

  1. Thank you so much for sharing this. I'll be keeping my eye out for her poetry and her translations.

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