Yet No Ramanujan
Abstract
The poem Yet No Ramanujan conveys the musings of a layman in his garden, obsessed by the way that mundane things, the small experiences of everyday life, suggest the ways in which, as Baudelaire says, "everything is number." This meditation ends with the recognition that the putative stability of a self, a thinking subject, is after all, however complex and unique, like all matter, a kind of oscillation, a complex product of number.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Poetry Analysis and Criticism
Artistic and Creative Research
History and Theory of Mathematics
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 403–403
- Publication date
- 1 January 2026
- Language
- EN