Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics

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Sarah Glaz, Joanne Growney
CRC Press, Oct 27, 2008 - Mathematics - 250 pages
Strange Attractors is a collection of approximately 150 poems with strong links to mathematics in content, form, or imagery. The common theme is love, and the editors draw from its various manifestations-romantic love, spiritual love, humorous love, love between parents and children, mathematicians in love, love of mathematics. The poets include li
 

Contents

Part 2 Encircling Love
71
Part 3 Unbounded Love
125
Contributors Notes
199
About the Mathematicians Appearing in the Poems
221
Acknowledgments
229
Back Cover
244
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About the author (2008)

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

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