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Strange Attractors - Poems of Love and Mathematics

English · Hardback

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Zusatztext 107060687 Informationen zum Autor Sarah Glaz is a professor of mathematics at the University of Connecticut and author of Commutative Coherent Rings and other books and articles in commutative algebra. She has had a lifelong interest in poetry, having served on the editorial board of Ibis Review , a literary magazine, and published several of her poems and translations in periodicals. JoAnne Growney was a professor of mathematics at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania for a number of years. During this time, she began to write and collect poetry with mathematical themes or structures. She now lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she continues her writing and is involved in DC-area poetry activities. You can read her growing math-poetry collection at http://joannegrowney.com Klappentext This collection presents roughly 150 poems related to mathematics in content, form, or imagery. The editors emphasize the various manifestations of love, from romantic love, spiritual love, and humorous love to the love between parents and children to mathematicians in love and love of mathematics. The poets featured in this widely praised book include literary masters, such as Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Rafael Alberti, John Updike, and Carl Sandburg, as well as celebrated mathematicians and scientists. Zusammenfassung A poetry anthology that contains over 150 poems - each of which has a strong link to mathematics in content, form, or imagery. It engages a variety of mathematical topics - from counting to commutative rings, and from the intermediate value theorem to infinity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Romantic Love. Encircling Love. Unbounded Love. Index.

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Assisted by Sarah Glaz (Editor), Glaz Sarah (Editor), Joanne Growney (Editor)
Publisher Peters A K
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.09.2008
 
EAN 9781568813417
ISBN 978-1-56881-341-7
No. of pages 250
Dimensions 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > General, dictionaries

MATHEMATICS / General, MATHEMATICS / Recreations & Games, Mathematical foundations

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