In childhood I loved novels that featured the girl-detective, Nancy Drew, and in adulthood I have continued to enjoy crime-solving fiction -- and have supposed that this is connected to my love of mathematics. Recent news of the death of spy novelist John Le Carre (1931--December 12, 2020) has stimulated my thinking about problem solvers and has led to this Fib:
We
seek --
and find --
truth that hides
in common views of
available information.
As you may already know, a "Fib" is a 6-line poem whose syllable counts match the first six Fibonacci numbers: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8. This link leads to additional Fibonacci-poetry connections.
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