The great physicist Paul Dirac did not have much time for poetry. "In science you want to say something nobody knew before, in words which everyone can understand," he once said. "In poetry you are bound to say something that everybody knows already in words that nobody can understand." Dirac clearly preferred the world of theoretical physics to the equally abstract world of poetry, but Ricardo Mansilla, a mathematician at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, has found a way to combine the two.