The IV International Poetry Festival named after N. Lobachevsky is held in Kazan from November 28 - 30
The IV International Poetry Festival named after N. Lobachevsky held in Kazan from 28 November to 30 November.
International Poetry Festival named after N. Lobachevsky is held in Kazan from 2011, and became a tradition. It is the only literary festival, which bears the name of the great mathematician, who overturned view of the world.
Nikolai Lobachevsky, rector of Kazan University and creator of non-Euclidean geometry, has become for enlightened people an example of fearlessness in his scientific quest. Outstanding mathematician proposed a new look at the long open and seemingly immutable truth.
Originality and promise of this project is the synthesis of poetic and scientific beginning in the format of poetic and scientific forum that brings together scientists and poets. The festival continues the tradition, of joint evenings, developed in the days of N. Lobachevsky, of "the Society of Russian literature" at the University of Kazan, at the meetings where their poems read not only poets and philology, but mathematics. It is known that Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky wrote poetry, and his favorite teacher - Nicholai Ibragimov lectured on literature and geometry, and was a recognized poet, author of the song "Vo pole berezon’ka stoyala ...".
The subject of discussion at the conference "The influence of non-Euclidean geometry in the artistic consciousness" become creative projects at the intersection of philosophical, cultural, historical, natural and mathematical and philological studies. Approbation of the original hypotheses, perhaps ahead of time, like "non-Euclidean geometry" by N. Lobachevsky. The conference will be attended by poets, mathematicians, philosophers, philologists.
Within the festival the evening of non-Euclidean poetry will be held in which poets read poems, which by opinion of the authors are "non-Euclidean".
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Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan