Lipman Bers Quote

Mathematics is very much like poetry... what makes a good poem — a great poem — is that there is a large amount of thought expressed in very few words. In this insense formulas like e + 1 = 0...are poems.

In: D. Albers, G. Alexanderson and C. Reid (eds.), More Mathematical People: Contemporary Conversations, Lipman Bers (p. 16)

Mathematics is very much like poetry... what makes a good poem — a great poem — is that there is a large amount of thought expressed in very few...

Mathematics is very much like poetry... what makes a good poem — a great poem — is that there is a large amount of thought expressed in very few...

Mathematics is very much like poetry... what makes a good poem — a great poem — is that there is a large amount of thought expressed in very few...

Mathematics is very much like poetry... what makes a good poem — a great poem — is that there is a large amount of thought expressed in very few...