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The Theorist Who Sees Math in Art, Music and Writing | Quanta Magazine

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Sarah Hart has always had an eye for the covert ways mathematics permeates other fields. As a child, she was struck by the ubiquity of the number 3 in her fairy tales. Hart’s mother, a math teacher, encouraged her pattern-seeking, giving her math puzzles to pass the time. Hart went on to earn a doctorate in group theory in 2000 and later became a professor at Birkbeck, University of London. Hart’s research probed the structure of Coxeter groups, more general versions of structures that catalog the symmetries of polygons and prisms. In 2023, she published Once Upon a Prime, a book about the ways math appears in fiction and poetry. “Since we humans are part of the universe, it is only natural that our forms of creative expression, literature among them, will also manifest an inclination for pattern and structure,” Hart wrote. “Mathematics, then, is the key to an entirely different perspective on literature.” Since 2020, Hart has been the professor of geometry at Gresham College in London

The Theorist Who Sees Math in Art, Music and Writing | Quanta Magazine Home The Mathematician Who Finds the Poetry in Math and the Math in Poetry Read Later Share Copied! Comments Read Later Read Later Q&A The Mathematician Who Finds the Poetry in Math and the Math in Poetry By Leila Sloman January 12, 2024 The links between math, music and art have been explored for thousands of years. Sarah Hart is now turning a mathematical eye to literature. Read Later Philipp Ammon for Quanta Magazine Introduction By Leila Sloman Contributing Correspondent January 12, 2024 View PDF/Print Mode geometry gro

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