The opening poem of Uneasy Relations by mathematician-poet Michael Bartholomew-Biggs is concerned with similarities and differences between mathematical and poetic cultures -- a topic of immense interest also to me and one that I too try to address in my verse. I wonder -- HOW can I show non-mathematicians that good mathematics is poetry??!! And, moreover, how can I (mostly a mathematician) write (as advocated by Wallace Stevens and agreed with by other poets) of things rather than (as mathematics wants) of ideas. OR, may one make poetry of ideas?
Two Cultures by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs
Graves claimed there isn't
much money in poetry:
and none vice-versa.
The first part stays true
if we replace poetry
by mathematics.
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Saturday, October 26, 2013
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