Poetry is unprovable truth.
The quote is by Andrés Trapiello. According to the dictionary, poetry aims to express beauty or aesthetic feeling through the word, in verse or prose. For mathematics, the dictionary states that it is a deductive science that studies the properties of abstract entities, such as numbers, geometric figures or symbols, and their relationships. Although it should, a fundamental fact is not included in that definition: that it is often poetic emotion, the sense of beauty, that guides the mathematician when he deduces or decides which properties of numbers or abstract entities he is going to study. The academics of the language, more attached to the things of letters than to those of numbers, do not seem to have noticed the inextricable link between mathematics and beauty, which someone said was the true guide in the great, and not so great, mathematical discoveries.
After all, mathematics are proven truths, so their universe must not be too far away from the poetic one.
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