Honoring Peter Cameron

THANK YOU, Peter Cameron,

for your generous sharing of mathematical ideas and their links!

      Happening soon -- the Conference on Theoretical and Computational Algebra -- scheduled to take place in Evora, Portugal, June 29 - July 3, 2025.  (Conference information is available at this link.)   A special feature of this conference will be the honoring of mathematician Peter Cameron.  As mathematicians and poetry-lovers and bloggers, Peter and I discovered each other online.  This  link leads to Cameron's first "Mathematics and poetry" blog posting (on April 6, 2010) and in Cameron's posting on July 14, 2010 (entitled "Mathematics and Poetry, 2") he links to my blog (first posting March 23, 2010) with this statement:

JoAnne Growney has posted on her blog a poem structured using prime factorisations: I think it is a lovely poem, and urge you to take a look.

This link leads to a summary-description of Cameron's blog and this link goes to his first "Mathematics and poetry" posting.   AND, here is a link to the search-results for the term "poetry" in his blog.

     I would like to celebrate Peter Cameron by sharing the opening stanzas of his ten-stanza mathy poem, "Millennium":  

Opening the Mind . . .

Recently I found   (on X  @letsplaymath)   this thoughtful and poetic musing by Denise Gaskins :

         Mathematical beauty 
              is when our mind's eye is opened
                   to see  something new -- or
                        to see something old in a new light.

The Art of Numbers

    A good friend who is a strong and active supporter of math-poetry links is Annapolis Naval Academy Professor Greg Coxson -- and, in a recent article (in this newsletter from a subgroup of the Mathematical Association of America -- MAA) entitled  "Meet Me on the Bridge Between Mathematics and Poetry," Coxson offers several poems.  One of these is "The Art of Numbers"  by Scotland mathematician-poet Eveline Pye -- and she has given me permission to offer it in my blog:

       The Art of Numbers     by Eveline Pye

            We talk of beautiful words, art, buildings
            when they're not part of the natural world.
            An x in Algebra is no more abstract than
            an idea in philosophy,  just more useful.    

Mathematics of Family -- in a Poem

     Split This Rock is an activist poetry organization that calls poets to a greater role in public life and reaches out to a network of socially engaged poets; the organization is  centered in Washington, DC but reaches all over the world . . .   One of their ongoing activities is the selection of a Poem of the Week -- and one of their recent choices was a challenging and fascinating poem that included frequent uses of mathematical notation to express its ideas.

Digital Art Exhibition Seeks Math Poetry

Submission Deadline -- September 24, 2025

Space Byi *2025 is an experimental digital art platform dedicated to exploring the intersection of mathematics, geometry, and artistic expression. As an official pavilion of The Wrong Biennale, they provide "a space for artists, mathematicians, and creative thinkers to engage in boundary-pushing visual and conceptual explorations."

In particular, this site extends a call for mathematical poetry -- information at this link -- to be submitted via email on or before September 24, 2025  --  to Radoslav Rochallyi at info@rochallyi.com.