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Love and Math is a book about mathematics written by Edward Frenkel which was published in October 2013. [1] It was a New York Times bestseller, [2] and was the 2015 winner of the Euler Book Prize. [3] As of February 2016, it has been published in 16 languages. [4]
Baker has won the London and UK Slam Poetry Championships. [5] In 2012, he won the World Slam Poetry Competition, becoming the youngest ever winner. [1] Unlike other poets, his poems are based on feelings and emotions. In 2014 Baker began performing as a speaker for TED. [4] His talk ‘A love poem for lonely prime numbers’ has over 2 million ...
Cai Tianxin (Chinese: 蔡天新, born March 3, 1963, in Taizhou, Zhejiang) is a Chinese mathematician, poet and essayist noted for his books Mathematical Legends, A Brief History of Mathematics, Mathematics an Arts, A Modern Introduction to Classical Number Theory, Little memory: my Childhood in Mao’s Time, etc.
In a letter to Lady Byron, De Morgan suggested that Ada's skill in mathematics might lead her to become "an original mathematical investigator, perhaps of first-rate eminence". [43] Lovelace often questioned basic assumptions through integrating poetry and science. Whilst studying differential calculus, she wrote to De Morgan:
A romantic poem called "Solitude" appeared in The Train under the authorship of "Lewis Carroll". This pseudonym was a play on his real name: Lewis was the anglicised form of Ludovicus , which was the Latin for Lutwidge , and Carroll an Irish surname similar to the Latin name Carolus , from which comes the name Charles . [ 7 ]
Ip is a often-cited editor of contemporary Singapore poetry anthologies, having co-edited with Christine Chia the collection "A Luxury We Cannot Afford", a response to the 1969 pronouncement by then-PM of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew that "poetry is a luxury we cannot afford."The collection brings together "a rich variety of poems by both established ...
Lovecraft found his studies were stymied by the mathematics involved, which he found boring and caused headaches that incapacitated him for the remainder of the day. [37] Lovecraft's first non-self-published poem appeared in a local newspaper in 1912.
Mathematical fiction is a genre of creative fictional work in which mathematics and mathematicians play important roles. The form and the medium of the works are not important. The genre may include poems, short stories, novels or plays; comic books; films, videos, or audios.