As we study mathematics and learn of outstanding mathematicians, many of us do not also learn which of those mathematicians also were poets. A posting that I found recently in Marian Christie's blog, Poetry and Mathematics, features poetry by Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831-39).
Maxwell's verse also is featured in the math-poetry anthology, Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics (A.K Peters, Ltd., 2008); preview available here at amazon.com.
Below I offer a stanza from a Maxwell poem (posted in this blog back in December, 2015) -- a stanza that shows the long-mistaken attitude that has existed about inferior abilities of math-women:
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