This collection presents roughly 150 poems related to mathematics in content, form, or imagery. The editors emphasize the various manifestations of love, from romantic love, spiritual love, and humorous love to the love between parents and children to mathematicians in love and love of mathematics. The poets featured in this widely praised book include literary masters, such as Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Rafael Alberti, John Updike, and Carl Sandburg, as well as celebrated mathematicians and scientists.

Introduction. Romantic Love. Encircling Love. Unbounded Love. Index.

Sarah Glaz is a professor of mathematics at the University of Connecticut and author of Commutative Coherent Rings and other books and articles in commutative algebra. She has had a lifelong interest in poetry, having served on the editorial board of Ibis Review, a literary magazine, and published several of her poems and translations in periodicals.

JoAnne Growney was a professor of mathematics at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania for a number of years. During this time, she began to write and collect poetry with mathematical themes or structures. She now lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she continues her writing and is involved in DC-area poetry activities. You can read her growing math-poetry collection at http://joannegrowney.com