Today's poem is not only a fine work of art, it is also -- for me-- a doorway to memory. I first heard it in the poet's voice when he visited Bloomsburg University in the late 1980s, and I was alerted to the reading and to James Galvin's work by my most dear friend, BU Professor of English Ervene Gulley (1943-2008). Ervene had been a mathematics major as an undergraduate but moved on from abstract algebra to Shakespeare. Her compassion, her broad-seeing view, and her fierce logic served her well in the study and teaching of literature. And in friendship. I miss her daily. She, like Galvin, questioned life and probed its geometry.
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Friday, March 18, 2011
Who are our prophets?
Here is the opening sentence of an article, "Mathematicians and Poets," by Cai Tianxin, a mathematics professor at Zhejiang University -- it appears in the April 2011 issue of Notices of the AMS:
"Mathematicans and poets exist in our world as uncanny prophets."
"Mathematicans and poets exist in our world as uncanny prophets."
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