TY - BOOK ID - 78011670 TI - Mathematics, poetry, and beauty PY - 2014 SN - 9814602957 9789814602952 9789814602938 9814602930 9789814602945 9814602949 PB - New Jersey DB - UniCat KW - Mathematical recreations. KW - Mathematics KW - Poetry in mathematics education. KW - Mathematical puzzles KW - Number games KW - Recreational mathematics KW - Recreations, Mathematical KW - Puzzles KW - Scientific recreations KW - Games in mathematics education KW - Magic squares KW - Magic tricks in mathematics education KW - Study and teaching. KW - Study and teaching UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78011670 AB - What does mathematics have to do with poetry? Seemingly, nothing. Mathematics deals with abstractions while poetry with emotions. And yet, the two share something essential: Beauty. "Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare", says the title of a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay. "Mathematics, Poetry and Beauty" tries to solve the secret of the similarity between the two domains. It tries to explain how a mathematical argument and a poem can move us in the same way. Mathematical and poetic techniques are compared, with the aim of showing how they evoke the same sense of beauty. The reader may find that, as Bertrand Russell said, "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty hold and austere, like that of sculpture ... sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show". ER -