Mathematics, Poetry and Beauty

by Ron Aharoni

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Where mathematics and poetry meet

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2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title winner
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Where mathematics and poetry meet

Aharoni Ron’s book examines a shared question: how can a mathematical argument and a poem each evoke a sense of beauty? It compares techniques from the two fields, bringing abstract reasoning and poetic expression into the same discussion. The focus is not on applying mathematics to poetry, but on exploring a perceived kinship between their ways of shaping ideas and producing aesthetic response. With mathematics and poetry as its paired subjects, the book offers a cross-disciplinary inquiry into beauty and the forms through which it can be encountered.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

Readers interested in connections between mathematics and the arts
Those curious about how mathematical reasoning and poetry can be compared
Readers exploring beauty as a subject across disciplines

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Mathematics and poetryBeautyMathematical reasoningPoetic 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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