In the creation and development of both mathematics and poetry both PRECISION and IMAGINATION are important. Recently I came across the announcement of a book entitled Poetic Logic and the Origins of the Mathematical Imagination -- written by Canadian professor if semiotics, Marcel Danesi, and part of the Springer-Nature series, Mathematics in Mind, Here is a link to an overview of Danesi's book. And, in the publisher's summary of the Danesi book, we find this:
The aim of this volume is to look broadly at what constitutes the mathematical mind through the Vichian lens of poetic logic.
Reading Danesi's ideas and thinking about my own poetic musings has reminded me of a long-ago poem of mine, "Can A Mathematician See Red?" I posted this poem in this blog long ago (in August 2011, at this link) -- and I offer it again, below.
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