A summertime gift book that I have much enjoyed reading is Love & Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality by Edward Frenkel (Basic Books, 2013). I admire the way Frenkel's memoir braids mathematics together with the other threads of his life. Including poetry. Like me, he chooses E E Cummings as one of his favorite poets. And he used lines from Cummings' 1931 poem "the surely" as an epigram for a 2007 book that summarized his work.
Below I include the entire text of Cummings' poem, with Frenkel's epigraph highlighted in bold face.
the surely
Cued
motif smites truly to Beautifully
retire through its english
the Forwardflung backwardSpinning hoop returns fasterishly
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Sunday, October 4, 2015
Sunday, October 30, 2011
What can 7 objects say? Or 100?
A friend, a high school art teacher, had one of her students paint a portrait of her -- not of her bodily self but a still life of the seven possessions that she felt best defined her. Since that time, more than seven years ago, I have been trying to decide what my seven objects would be. How might I portray me?
An article in today's NY Times, "Stuff that Defines Us," reminded me that I have neglected that project. The article tells of the British Museum's ambitious and fascinating project to choose 100 objects from their collection to summarize the history of the world.
An article in today's NY Times, "Stuff that Defines Us," reminded me that I have neglected that project. The article tells of the British Museum's ambitious and fascinating project to choose 100 objects from their collection to summarize the history of the world.
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