Dr. Scott Williams is a mathematician, poet, and artist blacksmith and, alas, illness will prevent him from being the featured speaker at the MAA Carriage House on Tuesday, February 26. Rescheduling is planned!
Most of Dr. Williams' career was spent as a research mathematician at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Buffalo. His interest in other black mathematicians led him to create the important website Mathematicians of the African Diaspora.” One of my favorites of his poems ("The Nine-Sided Diamond,") is dedicated to his mother -- who also was a mathematician.
Dr. Williams' poem, "An 1883 Faery Tale" (about the construction of the Cantor set) recently appeared in the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics (January 2019 issue) and he has given me permission also to include it here:
An 1883 Faery Tale by Scott W. Williams
Once there was a king whose daughter was beautiful.
He loved her very deeply and he wished to have more.
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Monday, February 25, 2019
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