find out about how maths could help you rescue someone in deadly peril how not to shoot yourself with a cannon and meet famous mathematicians who were really hard and watch out for one finger jimmy chainsaw charlie and their gangster friends who are living proof that maths can be murderous this selection made by cummings himself in 1960 offers a comprehensive introduction to his most characteristic work whether love poems satirical squibs or nature poetry and represents the range of his experiments with lyric form syntax and typography which combined to offer a radically individual and spontaneous view of the world