Interesting

Here is a collection of some essays and poems on mathematics that I found interesting or important. While I do not necessarily agree with every idea shared here (i.e. Hardy's myth of the young mathematician) I do feel that these essays give insight into the creative process of mathematics, the culture(s) of mathematics, and the mathematics community.

• A Mathematician's Apology by G. H. Hardy (1940)
• Récoltes et Semailles by Alexander Grothendieck (1991)
• On proof and progress in mathematics by William P. Thurston (1994)
• The Two Cultures of Mathematics by Timothy Gowers (1990's?)
• Alice's Adventures in Numberland by Alice Silverberg (2017-Pres)
• The Polar Star and the Life Endgame (elegy for a departed friend) by Matilde Marcolli (2019)

Three Poems

Temple Hymn 42 - 2250 B.C.E.

Ptolemy's Epigram - 150 C.E.

Dreams - 2008