Poet extraordinaire Maxine Kumin (1925-2014) died yesterday.
Late in 2007, AKPeters released Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics, edited by Sarah Glaz and me. Recently at a Howard County Math Festival I met a young man who browsed my copy of this anthology and found it the perfect Valentine. And so might you. Below I include a sample from the collection -- a love sonnet by Jean de Sponde (1557-1595), translated from the French by David Slavitt.
Several previous postings have offered love poems of mathematics and mathematicians;
these include 9 February 2013, 12 February 2012, 12 February 2011, 10 November 2011,
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