Here is the opening sentence of an article, "Mathematicians and Poets," by Cai Tianxin, a mathematics professor at Zhejiang University -- it appears in the April 2011 issue of Notices of the AMS:
"Mathematicans and poets exist in our world as uncanny prophets."
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Friday, March 18, 2011
Who are our prophets?
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