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MathematicsA group of such literary works is the mathematical literature for children, which supports the teachingof mathematics. Examples are the well known tales of Evgenios Trivizas for elementary school, fromthe series "THE TALES WITH THE NUMBERS".In Triviza’s tale "Aris, the shoemaker," children are engaged in operations of addition and subtraction.Also, in Mantouvalou` s book "The Magic Mirror", the children discover the meaning of symmetry.Similarly, in the book "Welcome Susana" the children learn the multiples of two, while in "Liza'sJourney" the geometric solids.Another group of literary works belonging to the same category are the scientific writings, such as:The "Chou Pei Tsouagk Shiga" (300 BC) an ancient Chinese mathematical text.The "Surya Sintchanta" (500 AD), an Indian epic poem with astronomical observations andmathematical implications.All the works of Galileo, and the “Somnium” of Kepler.In addition to the above, in our time we have a great variety of books from the group of the"mathematical literature". Examples of such books are:“Uncle Petros and the Goldbach conjecture" of the Greek author Apostolos Doxiadis,Many works of Deni Guedj such as the famous “Parrot` s theorem”, “The stars of Berenice”,“Explaining Mathematics to my daughters”, “One Zero show” and many more.It is also worth mentioning: “The last story of Miguel Torres da Silva" by Thomas Vogel.On the other hand, Mathematics, as a human expression, not only inspired theauthors to the content and plot of their works, but also in the form of prose andrhyme.The following examples show very clearly the above terms. Initially, the bookMathematics and prose literature is the historical description of how prosewriting was affected from the development of mathematics. It states that in the17th and 18th century, English men of letters (Thomas, Sprat, Robert Hooke)scientists and mathematicians agreed against the ornate prose and supported a deep mathematicalway of writing. The literature has not only adopted the mathematical concepts but the methods aswell. The Euclidean geometry was considered an example of human knowledge and thus, moralists,philosophers such as Henry More and Spinoza, the political theorists quickly adapted the technique ofwriting in an inductive method.Furthermore, another example showing the relationship between rhyme and mathematics is the oneof Ouvroir de Littérature Queneau (Oulipo). The “Oulipo” is translated as a workshop of alternativeliterature. The Oulipo reconstructed poems using mathematical tricks. For example, in a book with tenpages there were 10 poems written that contained 10 lyrics each in the ratio of one poem per page.Then, they would cut each page in ten rows, so that each row contained a verse. With the help ofcombinations each time and by selecting a number of verses from ten different pages, a new poemwas constructed.After our thorough study and examination of the various sources we had at our disposal we couldconclude that literature and mathematics, are not only not two completely disparate and foreignobjects between them, but eventually their relationship is complementary and interactive.Georgia Efstathiou, Konstantina Neokleous, Laura Nikita, Yioulia Svana 5APASCAL Platinum 7th Edition 24