Later this week a scheduled screening (in nearby Takoma Park, MD) of a film about Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) has prompted me to return to some rereading of Dickinson's verse -- which is occasionally mathematical. For example:
We shall find the Cube of the Rainbow by Emily Dickinson
We shall find the Cube of the Rainbow.
Of that there is no doubt.
But the Arc of a Lover's conjecture
Eludes the finding out.
The stanza above is found in many places; my source is Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics, ed. by S Glaz and JA Growney (AK Peters/CRC Press, 2008). This link leads to previous postings of Dickinson's work in this blog.
We shall find the Cube of the Rainbow by Emily Dickinson
We shall find the Cube of the Rainbow.
Of that there is no doubt.
But the Arc of a Lover's conjecture
Eludes the finding out.
The stanza above is found in many places; my source is Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics, ed. by S Glaz and JA Growney (AK Peters/CRC Press, 2008). This link leads to previous postings of Dickinson's work in this blog.
