This is the first in a series of postings involving poems in which the principal subject is a mathematician.
In “The Ideal Mathematician,” an essay in The Mathematical Experience, authors Philip Davis, Reuben Hersh, and Elena Marchisotto endeavor to describe the most mathematician-like mathematician: He rests his faith on rigorous proof ... He is labeled by his field, by how much he publishes . . . He finds it difficult to establish meaningful conversation with that large portion of humanity that has never heard of [his research topic] ... His writing follows an unbreakable convention: to conceal any sign that the author or the intended reader is a human being ....
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
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