Sunday, February 19, 2006

Marty Lewinter

Marty Lewinter, math professor, musician, poet and punster, gave a spellbinding rapidfire talk on the history of mathematics at our house last night.

He's the co-author of a The Saga of Mathematics: A Brief History.  One of the amazon.com reader reviews says "I finally understand math," which is amazing praise.  I haven't read the book yet, but Marty seems like the kind of math teacher everyone should have - enthusiastic and able to relate difficult mathematical concepts back to the real world and perceptual understanding.


Math can seem a cold, hard path,
Alien and aloof.

But when you grasp a proof,
The  numbers and the lines
Transform to something warm 
And glowing.

There's nothing more divine
Than really knowing.

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