The title of this blog post, "Still Life with Mathematics" is also the title of a mixed media artwork by Pacific Lutheran University math professor Jessica Sklar and displayed in Mathematical Art Galleries for the 2022 Joint Mathematics Meetings. Included in the art (which Sklar describes as a tribute to her dissertation advisor and to mathematics) is Sklar's poem, "Disciple" -- first published here in the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics in 2017 and offered below; Sklar describes it as "a love poem for mathematics."
Disciple by Jessica K. Sklar
And when they ask why I love you,
I divulge: in your universe,
normality is special, naturality
is contrived, fields can be infinite
and singularities are as commonplace
as odd primes.
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