Mathematics and Poetry

^z 31st December 2024 at 7:41am
Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing.
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

(attributed in various forms variously to mathematician Henri Poincaré; cf. No Concepts At All (22 Feb 2001), Logic and Information (1 Aug 2001), Millennium Math (2002-12-05), Gateways to Mathematics (2004-05-20), Circle Squaring (2005-07-25), Math and Sex (2007-09-18), ...) - ^z - 2008-11-09