Re: [HM] Poetry and Mathematics

Walter Felscher (walter.felscher@uni-tuebingen.de)
Thu, 16 Dec 1999 17:54:40 +0100 (MET)

The article

Friedrich Wille
Galerkins Loesungsnaeherungen bei monotonen Abbildungen
Mathematische Zeitschrift 127 (1972) 10-16

is written entirely in rhymed verse ("Knittelverse"), and I still
remember its beginning

So mancher hat schon nachgedacht,
wie man's mit Ritz-Galerkin macht ...

It is fun to read, and it is serious mathematics. It's also a piece
of poetry, provided you consider Wilhelm Busch an author of such.

W.F.