Showing posts with label Richard Feynmann. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richard Feynmann. Show all posts

Sunday, April 3, 2011

April -- month of poetry and mathematics

April is both National Poetry Month and Mathematics Awareness Month  (with theme this year being "Unraveling Complex Systems").  Today's poem by physicist Richard Feynmann (1918-1988) celebrates both poetry and complexity; from the Epilogue of  Feynman's book, What do you care what other people think?, we have these lines: