The article on infinity is quite good. I remember my first encounter with set theory and Cantor's work and aleph classes of infinity -- you don't forget when your mind gets blown away. This was in a book called ONE TWO THREE...INFINITY by George Gamow, the first edition of which I read in high school. It's still in print. I've never understood why so few of my colleagues in the arts don't take a liking to mathematics, physics and other disciplines containing the same elegance and beauty as poetry.
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I agree they are both beautiful however the aesthetics of poetry and mathematics are quite different. That is probably why so many artists are not interested in math and vice versa.
Thanks for your post
Kaz
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