{"product_id":"9781891386695","title":"Crossing The Equal Sign","description":"Marion Cohen is equally mathematician and poet. Using mathematical metaphor, she touches deeply into issues of life and heart. In each poem she crosses the equal sign on many levels, beginning with visible points, lines, numbers. crossing over to life's invisible-yet-tangible delights and frustrations. and crossing back again with insights gleaned from these reflections.\u003cp\u003e (Barbara E. Reynolds, SDS, Mathematics and Computer Science,\u003cbr\u003e Cardinal Stritch University)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarion is one of the few poets who can successfully explore the join between the literary and the mathematical sensibilities, and no one does it as well as she.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Jet Foncannon, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Drexel\u003cbr\u003e University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMillay wrote that \"Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare,\" but Marion Cohen looks on Beauty doing a slow strip-tease. Her poetry aches and anguishes and anticipates as she chronicles what it is like to almost - but not quite - (but perhaps truly) unveil Mathematics and gaze upon her lovely face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Annalisa Crannell, Department of Mathematics, Franklin and\u003cbr\u003e Marshall College, Co-author, Writing Projects for Mathematics\u003cbr\u003e Courses: Crushed Clowns, Cars, And Coffee to Go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFar from being a cold, calculating robot, 'a mathematician who is not something of a poet will never be a first-rate mathematician' (Weierstrass, 19th century). In this delightful book, Marion Cohen reminds us of this oft-forgotten human and emotional side of mathematics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Gregory Chaitin, Author of Meta Math! The Quest for Omega\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e.elegaic evocations enhanced by mathematical metaphors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e John Allen Paulos, Math Dept, Temple University, Author of\u003cbr\u003e Innumeracy and Once Upon a Number\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e.highly original\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Anne Hudson, Poetry Editor of Facets\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plain View Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039277203696,"sku":"9781891386695","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781891386695_p0.jpg?v=1763608849","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781891386695","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}