Feb
10
Interesting blog post on the relationship between math and poetry on the Guardian website: “Despite the seeming opposition between poetry and mathematics – airy-fairy ethereal verse versus hard-headed number-crunching – poetry and maths have always gone together like, well, a partial derivative and a unit vector. From the Sulba sutras to the 0/1 binary rhythm of the iambic pentameter, there is an affinity between maths and poetry. And poets have had long love affairs with mathematics – be they paid-up mathematicians like Carroll or Omar Khayyám, or writers simply enchanted by the magic of maths like Edna St Vincent Millay or Emily Dickinson.”