Mathematics and literature

Abstract

Aware of the tragic tasks faced by the new generations, in order to make them grow up as actively participants, teachers must provide high education standards including the resources of a creative view of mathematics. The guiding principle for teachers must be a continuous creative disposition, relying on historical examples, but also, fortunately, on the same attention shown by humanist intellectuals. We give an example of a humanistic intellectual teaching us that mathematics is storytelling as well as storytelling can be inspired by mathematics.