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Series
AMS Non-Series Monographs volume 99
Publisher
American Mathematical Society
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xix, 274 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language
English
Author
Publisher
World Scientific
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
vii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
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...
94) Games
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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Description
The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. Estranged from Ada's father, who was infamously "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," Ada's mathematician mother is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron heritage. Banishing fairy tales and make-believe from the nursery, Ada's mother provides her daughter with a rigorous education...
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