Comments on: Poetry, botany, arithmetic, memorization https://mathforlove.com/2017/08/poetry-botany-arithmetic-memorization/ Transforming how math is taught and learned. Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:22:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Ed Ma https://mathforlove.com/2017/08/poetry-botany-arithmetic-memorization/#comment-49591 Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:03:01 +0000 http://mathforlove.wpengine.com/?p=2565#comment-49591 Hello,

« Poetry, botany, arithmetic …»?

When I think about it, I remember the Polish 19th century poet Juliusz Słowacki [1809-1849] who wrote the poem ‘Genesis from the Spirit’, in which he mentions:

“Each tree is a great solution to a mathematical problem, a mystery of number(s) (Każde drzewo jest wielkim rozwiązaniem matematycznego zadania, tajemnicą liczby) “ 

and

“Mathematical thought itself seems to have developed in plants (Myśl, zda się, sama matematyczna rozwijała się w roślinach)”

Regards, 
Ed Ma

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