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
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