Coetzee Reviews Strange Attractors in Even Stranger Place
by Eric Banks | Aug-12-2009
I haven’t been clocking the reviews section of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. I guess that will have to change, though. Book SA notes that the Nobel Laureate recently reviewed Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics, edited by Sarah Glaz and JoAnne Growley Growney, for the august academic journal. “An anthology like Strange Attractors,” he writes, “which brings together a hundred and fifty poems with some degree of mathematical content, makes more a priori sense than, say, a collection of famous speeches with some mathematical content.” The review is available by PDF here. (Via Literary Saloon.)
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Each of us likes to see her name spelled correctly—I am JoAnne Growney,
co-editor of STRANGE ATTRACTORS: POEMS OF LOVE AND MATHEMTICS—which was, as you have noted, reviewed by John Coetzee( who, by the way, included mathematics as one of his undergraduate concentrations).
– JoAnne Growney (09/26 at 26-Sep 12:59 -05:00)