  The poem Helen of the Nobel laureate George Seferis was inspired by the anti
war play Helen of Euripides. In his poem, Seferis empathizes with the hero of
the tragedy, Teucer, who opposed the involvement of The Gods in the lives of
the humans, posing unanswered and contradictory questions. With the verse What
is god; What is not a god; what is there in between them, the ancient poet
Euripides sets foundations to the kind of logic that one can consider as a
predecessor of Fuzzy Logic. It is worth noting that when Seferis received the
Nobel Prize in Stockholm in 1963, he stated: Right now I feel I am a
contradiction myself, a sentence charged with the new language of mathematical
logic of the 20th century. Interplaying with the famous words of Karl
Weierstrass It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will
never be a perfect mathematician in this article we discuss, through two poems,
of how poetry and mathematical logic might have influenced each other.
