PRECISION vs. IMAGINATION

     In the creation and development of both mathematics and poetry both PRECISION and IMAGINATION are important.  Recently I came across the announcement of a book entitled Poetic Logic and the Origins of the Mathematical Imagination -- written by Canadian professor if semiotics, Marcel Danesi, and part of the Springer-Nature series, Mathematics in Mind,  Here is a link to an overview of Danesi's book.  And, in the publisher's summary of the Danesi book, we find this:

The aim of this volume is to look broadly at what constitutes the mathematical mind through the Vichian lens of poetic logic. 

Reading Danesi's ideas and thinking about my own poetic musings has reminded me of a long-ago poem of mine, "Can A Mathematician See Red?"  I posted this poem in this blog long ago (in August 2011, at this link) -- and I offer it again, below.    

Can a Mathematician See Red?     by JoAnne Growney

     Consider the sphere —
     a hollow rounded surface
     whose outside points
     are the very same points
     insiders see.

     If red paint spills
     all over the outside,
     is the inside red?

     The mathematician says, No,
     the layer of paint
     forms a new sphere
     that is outside the outside
     and not a bit inside.

     A mathematician
     sees the world
     as she defines it.

     A poet
     sees red
     inside.

"Can a Mathematician See Red?"  is found in my 2010 collection, Red Has No Reason (Plain View Press).

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-31582-4

here is link to see red:   https://poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2011/08/can-mathematician-see-red.html  maybe link to hibiscus flowers

 a book to look for  do this one next

posting on FB found 8/25

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-31582-4

Maybe this one next . .. .!

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-31582-4

book  Poetic Logic and the Origins of the Mathematical Imagination    by Marcel Danesi 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Danesi

retitle as PRECISION VS. IMAGINATION and include Can a Mathematician See Red?

Above, several lines from the preface to Danesi's book,