Re: Do you read the anthology ?

From: David Bernier (david250_at_videotron.ca)
Date: 07/10/04 

Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 00:53:44 -0400

mina_world wrote:

> It is true that
>
> a mathematician who is not also something of a poet
>
> will never be a perfect mathematician.
>
> - Weierstrass Karl -

I'd say a mathematician can be great but not interested in poetry.
Paul Dirac was a great theoretical physicist.
It appears to me he had little interest in poetry.

    "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be
     understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before.
     But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."

                      -- Paul Dirac

quote copied from:
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Quotations/Dirac.html

David Bernier

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