Creative Writing in Mathematics and Science
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Mathematics and science more usualy reach the general public through journalism, popularizations, fiction, biographies, plays, poems, and other forms of literary writing. Our workshop series, Creative Writing in Mathematics and Science, aims to create a critical yet supportive community of writers who share this goal. Like the first four highly successful BIRS workshops of this title, we brought together 21 mathematicians, scientists, and journalists to discuss their work-in-progress. We also expanded cooperation between BIRS and the Banff Center’s Writing and Publishing program, to the benefit of both. This is the longest direct collaboration BIRS has established with the Banff Centre for the Arts. The visible achievements of previous BIRS workshops include, in addition to many publications of individual participants (see the Bibliography for a partial list),
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