One of the challenging AND enriching qualities of both mathematics and poetry is the multiplicity of meanings that particular expressions may have. This quality also is found in jokes -- and in the Math Blog of MIT math-scholar Tanya Khovanova I recently enjoyed some entertaining mathy riddle-jokes and below I offer a sample:
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| Here is a link to Khovanova's complete blog-posting. Enjoy! |
For biographical and contact information for Khovanova, here is a link to her webpage -- and here as a link to her poem "Nerdy Wedding" and, finally, a link to an earlier posting of her work in this blog.
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What fun! Thanks for sharing, JoAnne. By the way, I have two mathy poems for kids in the STEM issue of TygerTyger magazine: https://tygertyger.net/posters-and-teaching-resources-stem-poems-issue-6/
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