Israel Lewis is the pen name of a polymath who earned his living as a scientist and is a writer in his retirement. His webpage offers a variety of his creations--many of them permeated with mathematics.
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Saturday, July 24, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
Poetry and Mathematics -- Similarities
HOW are mathematics and poetry similar?
Often-quoted in mathematical circles are words from mathematician Karl Weierstrass (1815-97): “It is true that a mathematician, who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.” And from physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955): "Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas." More recently, from Lipman Bers (1914-1993): “ . . . mathematics is very much like poetry . . . what makes a good poem—a great poem—is that there is a large amount of thought expressed in very few words."
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Albert Einstein,
Euclid,
infinitude,
Karl Weierstrass,
Lipman Behrs,
mathematics,
poetry,
primes,
Richard Wilbur
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