Subject: Re: [HM] Mathematics in Literature
From: Ubiratan D'Ambrosio (ubi@usp.br)
Date: Sat May 20 2000 - 11:45:19 EDT
> Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 11:32:03 -0700
> From: Alvin White <awhite@THUBAN.AC.HMC.EDU>
> Subject: Re: [HM] Mathematics in Literature
>
> OF possible interest......
> The Humanistic Math Network Journal published 22 pages of math
> references in literature in issue # 7 (4/92) by John Lew (at that
> time at IBM). This was a continuation of a project his father started.
> The journals are sent without cost to anyone to a POSTAL address.
> The journal is supported by a grant by EXXONMOBIL FOUNDATION
> since1986.
>
And in the volume
ESSAYS IN HUMANITIC MATHEMATICS, edited by Alvin White, MAA, Washington DC,
1993,
I have an essay "Mathematics and Literature", pp.35-47.
After writing the paper I learned of a beautiful dialogue in Rainer W.
Fassbinder's "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant".
Ubi
Ubiratan D'Ambrosio
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