British Mathematician Sarah B. Hart is receiving wide-spread publicity and praise in recent days for the publication of her book Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature (Flatiron Books: New York, 2023). (Here is a link to an enthusiastic review in The New York Times by Jordan Ellenberg.)
My copy of Hart's book arrived last week and I have been enjoying not only the information but the point of view. Hart's opening chapter is "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe: The Patterns of Poetry" and, for those of you who don't have the book yet, an excerpt from opening pages of the chapter is included here in an article in Literary Hub.
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