More than you may think …

… Do math and literature have anything in common? | Washington Examiner. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

In Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections between Mathematics and Literature, Sarah Hart, a professor of math at the University of London, argues that literature is indebted to math for more than just metaphors. The two “are inextricably ... linked”: “The universe is full of underlying structure, pattern, and regularity, and mathematics is the best tool we have for understanding it.”