Combining math and parenting . ..
It delights me that Scientific American includes science-related poetry -- and when my monthly issue arrives I turn first to the monthly poem. Here are the opening stanzas of 'The Algorithm' by California poet Barbara Quick from the May, 2022 issue.
Optimization under uncertainty
is a field of study in which my grown son
will earn his Ph.D. The math, in his case,
concerns the production of wind energy.He reads his papers aloud on the phone to me
as a way to optimize their clarity,
so that even a layperson, such as myself,
can understand what he’s saying,
in between each beautifully made
equation and graph.
. . . Quick's complete poem is available at this link.
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