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“Be a good person, but don’t waste time to prove it.”

— Unknown

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“Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you chose your life, you didn’t settle for it.”

— Mandy Hale

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My latest New Scientist cartoon

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Laurent Derobert, Fragments de Mathématiques Existentielles, 2010

Laurent Derobert is an existential mathematician living in Paris’s Montmartre. The art of existential mathematics is slightly obscure, lurking in the shadows of expectation. It involves mathematical operations performed on poetic concepts, which, purely from a visual perspective, creates a curious cocktail of combinations. This art form encompasses the correlation within romantic vestals, the models and mazes of passion and measuring the gap between our dreams and realities. It attempts to express thoughts, feelings, and doubts through equations, conjectures, and theorems.

Whilst combining these very different languages might seem as absurd as combining custard with concrete, poetry and maths do speak in similar tongues. Each stitch in the fabric of these two languages is a symbol bursting with significance beyond its physical self, with maximum meaning captured in minimal space. But whilst mathematics dictates that reality be dissected with a sharp surgical detachment, stripped back to the flesh and bone of the moment itself, the poetic dimension speaks from the heart.