Mathematics, Poetry and Beauty

by Ron Aharoni

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Where mathematical proof and poetry meet

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Winner of the 2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Named a winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2015 recognition.

Where mathematical proof and poetry meet

Aharoni Ron examines a question that links two seemingly distant fields: how can mathematical arguments and poems produce a shared sense of beauty? The book compares techniques from mathematics and poetry, making their points of contact its central subject. Its 261 pages frame beauty not as a property exclusive to artistic expression, but as a way to consider both abstract reasoning and poetic form. The discussion offers a bridge between mathematical ideas and literary questions without treating the two as interchangeable disciplines.

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Readers interested in connections between mathematics and the arts.
Those exploring ideas about beauty in abstract reasoning and poetry.
Students or general readers curious about mathematics beyond its technical applications.

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Mathematics and poetryBeauty and abstractionMathematical argument and poetic technique

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Book overview

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.A winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2015, "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."

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