Young, growing in confidence, we'd prove the impossible for fun - nothing she said could prevent us from showing two was equal to one. In Naming the Number, his fourth collection, Tom Petsinis sees the world and the human condition through the dual prism of poetry and mathematics. From theorums to paradoxes, from Pascal's rotting tooth to Hypatia exposing herself to her students, and from the history of zero to fractals, these poems are glimpses of mathematics as a lived experience.
