Mathematics and Poetry
By ET
… 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 sense formulas like
![e^{\pi i}+1=0[/tex] or</p>
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\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}{e^{-x^2}dx}=\sqrt{\pi} [/tex]
are poems.
–Lipman Bers
