Every six months a wonderful treasure appears in my email-box -- an announcement, with links, to the latest issue of the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics. Here is a link to the Table of Contents for this latest (July 2022) issue.
Gathered and edited by Mark Huber (Claremont McKenna College) and Gizem Karaali (Pomona College) this open access journal contains a variety of articles and fiction and poetry. With topics such as "Math in the Time of COVID" and "A Report about a Speaker Series Connecting Mathematics and Religion," the journal offers both depth and variety as its contents explore the humanistic aspects of mathematics. Following more than twenty articles, we come to these poems:
First, by Kevin Farey of San Francisco Waldorf High School, a Poetry Folder, "Circular Meditations" -- a sequence of seventeen interconnected poems pertaining to mathematics, science, history, politics, religion, and spirituality.
Then, five more poems: "Ode to delta" by Evandro il Cinico, "Scientists Confirm Euler's Identity is Math's Most Beautiful Expression" by John F. Donoghue, "Doughnut at the End of Space" by Deborah Coy, "Spurious Correlation Sestina" by Jules Nyquist, and "A Topologist’s Broken Heart" by Josh Hiller.
AND, at the end of the Table of Contents, a CALL for POETRY (with a deadline of November 1, 2022) -- a request for poems about mathematical constants other than π.
The JHM poetry request calls to mind these lines by Scientific American columnist and "occasional versifier" Martin Gardner (1914-2010):
π goes on and on
And e is just as cursed
I wonder, how does π begin
When its digits are reversed?
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And . . . REMEMBER to submit your poetry to JHM.
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