{"id":253456,"date":"2024-08-12T10:34:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T10:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/12\/the-surprising-connections-between-maths-and-poetry\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:12:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:12:33","slug":"the-surprising-connections-between-maths-and-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/12\/the-surprising-connections-between-maths-and-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"The surprising connections between maths and poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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People like to position maths as cold, hard logic, quite distinct from creative pursuits. Actually, maths often involves a great deal of creativity. As mathematician Sofya Kovalevskaya wrote, \u201cIt is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.\u201d Poetry<\/a> is often constrained by rules, and these add to, rather than detract from, its creativity.<\/p>\n

Rhyming poems generally follow a scheme formed by giving each line a letter, so that lines with matching letters rhyme. This verse from a poem by A. A. Milne uses an ABAB scheme:<\/p>\n

What shall I call
My dear little dormouse?
His eyes\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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