What does mathematics have to do with poetry? Not much, at one level, but a lot at another. Both play with structure and form, seek elegance and parsimony, and strive in their own way for truth and beauty. I’ve loved both with little success in either, but over the years I’ve played games with the two and some of those explorations live here.
Fibonacci’s Poem
A poem where the number of words per line follows the Fibonacci sequence.
A cosmologist worries (about infinity)
A poem inspired by a conversation with cosmologist Tanmay Vachaspati.
The Mathematical “i”
Thoughts on imaginary numbers — how they came to be and what their value is.
The infinity of primes
The infinity of primes
Euclid’s proof for the infinity of primes, written in verse.
ChatGPT3 writes a mathematical proof (in verse)
A follow-up to the math-poetry series — can AI write a proof in verse?
A tangent, a line and a circle
A tangent, a line and a circle
A poem about one of geometry’s most intriguing proofs.
The Goldbach Variations
The Goldbach Variations
The first of two poems on Goldbach’s conjecture.
Goldbach’s Conjecture
Goldbach’s Conjecture
The second poem on Goldbach’s conjecture. This one gets the history right.
Mathematical Beauty: A limerick
Mathematical Beauty: A limerick
Just what it says…