Mathematician Lauren K. Williams (PhD ’05 MIT, currently Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University) has won a 2025 MacArthur Fellowship, a prestigious honor often called the “genius grant.” The award is presented annually by the MacArthur Foundation to “talented individuals in a variety of fields who have shown exceptional originality in and dedication to their creative pursuits.” The MacArthur Foundation praised Williams for “uncovering transformative connections between algebraic combinatorics and problems in other areas of math and physics.”
Looking for poetry to include in this posting drew me to the poem "What Drove Me into Math" by Marion Deutsche Cohen and I offer the thoughtful second stanza of Cohen's poem below
What drove me into math
was not the Mystery of the Unknown
but the mystery of the known.
Cohen's complete poem is included in Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics (A. K. Peters, 2008; edited by S. Glaz and J. Growney). This link leads to previous blog postings that include poetry by Marion Cohen.
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