Francis McDonnell

"poetry ... is simply the continuation of mathematics by other means" - Sarah Hart

Today is a mathematically interesting day. If you multiply the day of the month by the month of the year by the year you get a cube - 24 x 3 x 24 =1728=12 cubed.

"Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty." Deepak Chopra

Here's a mathematical joke I heard Milton Jones tell on the radio recently: Maths can be confusing. Why is that one times one is one, two times two is four, but zero times zero is gravy granules?

Mathematicians get a mention in the song "Go tell the women" by Grinderman.

I was interested and surprised to hear "Number Theory" mentioned on the soap "The Archers" today!

Celebrated Fibonacci Day by buying and eating some sunflower seeds.

Major discoveries made by mathematicians past age 50 (2010) Link: mathoverflow.net/questions/2563… Comments: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315217…

... and inspire us with Resolution to wrestle against the unjust Tryanny of false Prejudices."

... They wholly deliver us from a credulous Simplicity, most strongly fortify us against the Vanity of Scepticism, effectually restrain from a rash Presumption, most easily incline us to a due Assent, perfectly subject us to the Government of right Reason ...

"These Disciplines [mathematics] serve to inure and corroborate the Mind to a constant Diligence in Study; to undergo the Trouble of an attentive Meditation, and cheerfully contend with such Difficulties as lie in the Way.

Thanks to @snezanalawrence in October's Mathematics Today I have learned of the following lovely quote about the benefits of mathematics to one's thinking generally. Isaac Barrow, First holder of the Lucasian Chair in Mathematics at Cambridge said:

@greenpoet Hi David. I am well, thanks, and hope you are too. Thanks for the tip-off about Peregrine Falcons. There was a lovely film on last night called The Peanut Butter Falcon (but it wasn't really about a feathered bird).

Poet Lemn Sissay is on Any Questions! 🙂

Today is a great day for mathematicians - Lemma has come 3rd in the London Marathon!

Here's a Haiku I composed the other day in St. George's Square, Luton: Pigeons transfer to / roof of VS Food & Wine / Few left on the square.

Yay! A mathematician on Any Questions!

Just finished reading the enjoyable The Weil Conjectures by Karen Olsson. It says Andre Weil was the last Universal Mathematician according to Scientific American.

A while ago Deloitte estimated that 16% of Britain's GDP was directly dependent on mathematical research.

Nice to learn of a prize I'm not too old or young for. For the new Riemann Prize you need to be aged 40-65. rism.it/index.php/news…