Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics by Glaz, Growney New..

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Strange AttractorsPoems of Love and Mathematics\nAuthor(s): Sarah Glaz, Joanne Growney\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc, United States\nImprint: A K Peters\nISBN-13: 9781568813417, 978-1568813417\nSynopsis\nStrange Attractors is a collection of approximately 150 poems with strong links to mathematics in content, form, or imagery. The common theme is love, and the editors draw from its various manifestationsromantic love, spiritual love, humorous love, love between parents and children, mathematicians in love, love of mathematics. The poets include literary masters as well as celebrated mathematicians and scientists. \n\n\""What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?\"" So wrote the American mathematician and educator David Eugene Smith. In a similar vein, the German mathematician Karl Weierstrass declared, \""A mathematician who is not at the same time something of a poet will never be a full maths