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Ion Barbu and the poetry of Riemannian geometry
Ion Barbu - pen name for Dan Barbilian - (1895 –1961) was one of Romania's intriguing personalities: a superbly gifted mathematician and a poet. His contribution to the theory of mathematics, while significant, is probably less known than his poetry. Ion Barbu's poems, wrapped up in a tight metaphoric cloud continue to escape any attempt of extracting meaning from his verses - his is a poetry often called 'modernist' and 'hermetic'.In some of Ion Barbu's poems, such as the one rendered below, mathematical terms appear: "groups", "sum", "inferred", "inverted". The concepts...
Published By: continuouspoem - Friday, 20 April
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