Can you tell the difference between mathematics and
poetry?
Here’s a link to a SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN quiz to help you
decide?
And a couple of centuries ago there was William Wordsworth -- who also contemplated both poetry and mathematics:
On poetry and geometric truth
and their high privilege of lasting life,
From all internal injury exempt,
I mused; upon these chiefly: and at length,
My senses yielding to the sultry air,
Sleep seized me, and I passed into a dream.
and their high privilege of lasting life,
From all internal injury exempt,
I mused; upon these chiefly: and at length,
My senses yielding to the sultry air,
Sleep seized me, and I passed into a dream.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
The Prelude, Book 5