More than thirty years ago at a mathematics conference book exhibit I stumbled upon Against Infinity: An Anthology of Contemporary Mathematical Poetry, edited by Ernest Robson and Jet Wimp. This collection, now out of print, became a resource for my mathematics courses--an opportunity for students to see the links between mathematics and the surrounding world. One of my early loves was "Arithmetic Lesson: Infinity" by Linda Pastan. Found also in Carnival Evening, the poem opens with these these lines:
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Thursday, July 1, 2010
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