The difference between you as a mathematician, and Van Guff as a painter, is that Van Guff was an excellent painter, who painted all the time, whereas you are an appalling mathematician, who has done very little mathematics.

"don't confuse numbers with maths" And yet an Gentleman may write an poeme about an carrot. And is he not entitled to call it "Vegetable Poeme"? No, no, I suppose he isn't.

"Some clearly can" Do you know any good maths poemes? The only one I can think of is this little gem by Lewis Carroll (who was a Mathematics Lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford): And what mean all these mysteries to me Whose life is full of indicies and surds? x^2 + 7x + 53 = 11/3

Being a non-mathematician you won't get this; but don't confuse numbers with maths. A strong element of good poetry is the elegant and effective use of language. Maths is just another language, and many mathematicians (those who understand and appreciate the language) find a great deal of it very poetic. A site called 'theoremranker.com' could bear remarkable resemblances to this, but in the same way that few non-english speakers will visit this site, few non-mathematicians would find worthwhile content in theoremranker.

Yes.

I am not surprised you are being vague and elliptic, your core idea seems to be you don't know how to make maths poetic. Some clearly can so the poem is redundant. Of course you could always depict a sculptor as an writer. That would be an ace idea.

Would that it were.

Thank you :)

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