Oh God, Jim, I can’t tell you how much I loved this. And yes — it makes perfect sense as a reply to this article. There is some crazy magic and creativity to math.

I hated geometry with a passion, but omg, I loved theorems and numbers with a passion. I still remember excitedly standing over the teacher with some crazy sheet of paper and showing him that I’d found a shorter way to solve for the equation and we’d test it on other equations, and blah — hours of geeky fun.

Everything boils down to math. Music, colors, art — it’s all numbers and sequences. Show me an amazing artist and I’ll show you someone who sees in numbers, even if they don’t realize it. Fibonacci spirals, the rule of thirds, and on and on. Same with music. It’s all just math.

Writing is no difference. Poetry is the most obvious in the counted syllables of different poetry patterns, but good storytelling has a rhythm and cadence, too. People respond to the cadence and don’t even realize it. That’s a big part of the writer’s voice and most people have no clue.

Everything — everything is math.