Abstract / Synopsis
The poem Yet No Ramanujan conveys the musings of a layman in his garden, obsessed by the way that mundane things, the small experiences of everyday life, suggest the ways in which, as Baudelaire says, "everything is number." This meditation ends with the recognition that the putative stability of a self, a thinking subject, is after all, however complex and unique, like all matter, a kind of oscillation, a complex product of number.
Recommended Citation
DB Jonas, "Yet No Ramanujan," Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 16 Issue 1 (January 2026), pages 403-403. . Available at: https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol16/iss1/29
