During these difficult pre-election coronavirus days I have been turning to poetry, and especially favoring -- for their brevity -- Haiku. The January 2018 issue of the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics offers a folder "Math in Seventeen Syllables: A Folder of Mathematical Haiku" -- with more than thirty poets sharing poetic insights using this ancient form. Here is one, by Laura Kline, that spoke to me today:
Peaceful living and
Nicely balanced equations
How we long for both
For more mathy Haiku, follow this link to the results of a blog-search using "Haiku".
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