"—You still haven't solved the riddle? asked the Hatter, turning to Alice.
—No, I give up - Alicia did -. What is the answer?
"I have no idea," said the Hatter.
Composed both by a convention of rules and symbols, literature and mathematics seem to have nothing in common, even when both are disciplines that order and give meaning to the world. There is a lot of literature in mathematics, and mathematics in literature, as Sarah Hart has studied, the first woman to occupy the Chair of Geometry at the prestigious Gresham College in London. Accompanied by writer and poet Berta García Faet, Hart will look at how mathematics is linked to literature, in a parallel between the calculations, the logic games and the riddles of the first and the word games, the rhymes, the palindromes and anagrams of the second. They are all the "riddles" of Alice in Wonderland, and both will help us solve them.
In charge of:
Sarah Hart, mathematician and popularizer of the subject. He 2013 she was promoted to Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at Birkbeck College (University of London) i, so, she became Birkbeck's youngest STEM teacher, the first female Maths teacher in the university's history and one of only five female Maths teachers under the age of forty in the UK. Presently, He holds the Gresham Chair of Geometry, the oldest in the United Kingdom, and is the first woman to hold the post. She is the president of the British Society for the History of Mathematics and a member of the London Mathematical Society. recently, has published in Spanish Once upon a time there were prime numbers. The amazing relationship between literature and mathematics (Paidós, 2024).
Berta García Faet, writer, child researcher, cursileries, romance languages and animalisms. She is the author of the essay The art of lighting words (Berlin, 2023) and several books of poetry, all published in The Beautiful Warsaw: Hunch (2023); A small pretty personality (2021); The phosphorous psalms (2017), National Youth Poetry Award Miguel Hernández 2018; The age of deserving (2015), translated into English by Kelsi Vanada with the title The Eligible Age (Song Bridge Press, 2018), and four other poetry books, gathered at traditionalist heart: Poetry 2008-2011 (2017). has translated, others, Paul Legault (for Kriller71) and Blanca Llum Vidal (for Ultramarinos). She has a doctorate in Hispanic Studies (Brown University, USA).
Each session will be preceded by a sound intervention by Helena Mariño and Enri La Forêt.
Illustration by the Sergio García Sánchez National Illustration Award.
This cycle is curated in collaboration with Giselle Etcheverry Walker, consultant and curator of literary projects, thought and cultural.
