My friend and colleague, University of Connecticut mathematician Sarah Glaz, is an accomplished poet and is active in coordinating math-poetry activities -- via her website, the annual BRIDGES Conference, the anthology Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics . . . . Here is one of her mathy poems -- this one a pantoum, first published in London Grip.
Mathematical Modelling by Sarah Glaz
Mathematical modelling may be viewed
As an organizing principle
That enables us to handle
A vast array of information
As an organizing principle
We could use the color spectrum
A vast array of information
Would become a rainbow in the sky
We could use the color spectrum
And the scaling notes spanning an octave
Would become a rainbow in the sky
Shining through the melody of rain
And the scaling notes spanning an octave
And letters gleaned from ancient alphabets
Shining through the melody of rain
Nature translated into words
And letters gleaned from ancient alphabets
That enable us to handle
Nature translated into words
May be viewed as mathematical modelling
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