First published in 2007 in Mathematics Magazine, Caleb Emmons' poem "Dearest Blaise" has the form of (Blaise) Pascal's Triangle. That original publication offered also a challenge: what is the next line of Emmons' poem? What is your guess?
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Monday, December 5, 2011
Friday, May 6, 2011
Permuting words and and enumerating poems
Caleb Emmons teaches mathematics at Pacific University. Here is his very-clever description of the requirements for a poem to be a sestina -- spelled out in a poem that is itself a sestina. (A sestina has 39 lines and its form depends on 6 words -- arrangements of which are the end-words of 6 6-line stanzas; these same words also appear, 2 per line, in the final 3-line stanza.)
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Friday, March 4, 2011
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics -- V1, Issue 1
A new door has opened for those of us interested in the humanistic aspects of mathematics. Under the able leadership of editors Mark Huber (Claremont McKenna College) and Gizem Karaali (Pomona College), the idea of the former Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal has been revived and Volume 1 Issue 1 of the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics is now available online. The inaugural issue contains several poems, including the following one by Caleb Emmons, "Seeing Pine Trees," in which Emmons characterizes the views of a poet and a mathematician as two halves of one whole.
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