It is a delight to me to see math and science publications including poetry! Today I am enjoying the work of North Carolina poet Britt Kaufmann -- Kaufmann works as a math tutor -- and her poem "Midnight Calculus" appeared in the February 2024 issue of Scientific American. The accompanying bio mentioned that Kaufmann took her first calculus course at age 47.
More recently, under the heading "In Celebration of National Poetry Month," MAA FOCUS, the Newsmagazine of the Mathematical Association of America. another Kaufmann poem appeared, "Z-score of Zero." (A z-score measures exactly how many standard deviations above or below the mean a particular data-number is.) Kaufmann gives us a thoughtful poetic reflection of math on life!
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