The Webinar on Poetry and Mathematics took place on Thursday, July 3rd, 2025 from 5 pm until 6 pm, with Marta Macho-Stalder, Professor of Mathematics at the University of the Basque Country in Spain, as our invited speaker. This virtual event was free and open to the general public.
The speaker started the virtual event by commenting on the Chinese poet Su Hui who is known for having created an extremely complex palindrome in the 4th century. Marta Macho-Stadler then shared about the first sextine in the history of literature and how the writer Raymond Queneau asked himself if it would be possible to generalize the structure of the sextine by replacing 6 with n. The speaker also presented on the longest book of the world: A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems by Raymond Queneau and highlighted the book of poems Alphabet by Inger Christensen and the poetry book The Reasons of Water by Francisco Javier Guerrero. This virtual event was co-organized with the Spanish Mathematical Royal Society (RSME).
