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Strange attractors. Poems of love and mathematics. (English) Zbl 1154.00008

Wellesley, MA: A K Peters (ISBN 978-1-56881-341-7/hbk). xix, 255 p. (2008).
152 poems written by 139 old or modern authors are dealing with love and mathematical notions. Many of them are very witty, some of them have famous authors like the Roman poet Catullus, the Italian poet Dante, the Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli.
They are comprised in three chapters: 1. Romantic love: From heartaches to celebrations, 2. Encircling love: Of family, nature, life, and spirit, 3. Unbounded love: For mathematics and mathematicians. It is a marvellous, lovely book.
[Further reviews: Sally I. Lipsey, Math. Intell. 32, No. 1, 74–75 (2010; doi:10.1007/s00283-009-9082-6); J. M. Coetzee, Notices Am. Math. Soc. 56, No. 8, 944–946 (2009;
https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/200908/rtx090800944p.pdf).]

MSC:

00A08 Recreational mathematics
97A20 Recreational mathematics, games (education) (MSC2010)
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