Lots of years ago, an important part of my awareness of poems that involve math came from reading work by Martin Gardner in his "Mathematical Games" in Scientific American . . . and it has been a delight to me to find poetry again in my issues of that magazine. METER, a Scientific American feature edited by Dava Sobel, offers a bit of science-related poetry each month -- and the April 2026 issue features three mathy limericks by Jeffrey Branzburg (a retired math teacher and technology consultant). I offer one of these limericks below.
Topology by Jeffrey Branzburg
A Mobius strip once departed
On a trip to places uncharted
But it made a wrong turn
Only to learn
That it ended up back where it started.
A complete collection of Gardner's "Mathematical Games" is available as an e-book -- at this link.
Here in my blog I have made frequent mentions of limericks and Martin Gardner and Scientific American; follow the links to lists of previous postings.
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