Open AccessMathematics in poetry
Author(s) -
Stephen Ornes
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
proceedings of the national academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.011
H-Index - 771
eISSN - 1091-6490
pISSN - 0027-8424
DOI - 10.1073/pnas.1322640111
Subject(s) - soul , infinity , poetry , divinity , mathematics , series (stratigraphy) , philosophy , universe , literature , linguistics , art , epistemology , theology , physics , astronomy , biology , mathematical analysis , paleontology
The universe is a grand book, Galileo noted in 1623, written in the language of mathematics (1). Those poor souls who don’t understand that language, he cautioned, wander about in a “dark labyrinth.” Because I Longed by Elizabeth Bartlett Because I longed To comprehend the infinite I drew a line Between the known and unknown Excerpt from: Treatise on Infinite Series by Jacob Bernoulli Even as the finite encloses an infinite series And in the unlimited limits appear, So the soul of immensity dwells in minutia And in narrowest limits no limits inhere. What joy to discern the minute in infinity! The vast to perceive in the small, what divinity! As languages go, …
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