There are some who may find the following of interest. There are times,
when as a poet, I find myself an envious rival of mathematicians....
they seem to have a lot of fun.
From:
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week218.html
7) Martin H. Krieger, A 1940 letter of Andre Weil on analogy in
mathematics, AMS Notices 52 (March 2005), 334-341.
He even talks about how the charm of an analogy evaporates when you find
a generalization that encompasses both terms:
"The day dawns when the illusion vanishes; intuition turns to certitude;
the twin theories reveal their common source before disappearing; as the
Gita teaches us, knowledge and indifference are attained at the same
moment. Metaphysics has become mathematics, ready to form the material
for a treatise whose icy beauty no longer has the power to move us."
Available at and quoted from:
http://www.ams.org/notices/200503/200503-toc.html
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