Last week, NPR's program "Science Friday" anticipated National Poetry Month and offered a list of poems with links to science. One of these is "Algorhyme" by Radia Perlman --
a pioneer in computer science
and while she worked
her mind gave her a poem . . .
from Algorhyme by Radia Perlman
I think that I shall never see
A graph more lovely than a tree.
A tree whose crucial property
Is loop-free connectivity.
. . .
Perlman's complete poem is available here. Another of the poetry suggestions made by Science Friday is "Planetarium" by Adrienne Rich -- a poem that honors astronomer Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) and posted here in this blog.
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