Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) was a Polish science fiction writer whose works have been widely translated. Here is a poem of his (found here in a blog with final postings in 2007) -- a poem that enthusiastically expresses love in the language of mathematics!
Love and Tensor Algebra
by Stanislaw Lem (translated by Michael Kandel)
Come, let us hasten to a higher plane
Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn,
Their indices bedecked from one to n
Commingled in an endless Markov chain!
Come, every frustum longs to be a cone
And every vector dreams of matrices.
Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze:
It whispers of a more ergodic zone.
Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn,
Their indices bedecked from one to n
Commingled in an endless Markov chain!
Come, every frustum longs to be a cone
And every vector dreams of matrices.
Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze:
It whispers of a more ergodic zone.
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