Each week I get an email from Feedspot that tells me of mathy blog postings that I may have missed and may be interested in. One of the reminders that I particularly enjoyed today was to visit the blog of Boston Mathematician Tanya Khovanova; the actual blogsite is at this link: Tanya Khovanova 's Math Blog. Yesterday's posting involved some wordplay (math jokes); here are samples:
I hate getting into debates about Möbius strips. They’re always one-sided.
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4 out of 3 people have trouble with fractions.
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Why was algebra so easy for the Romans? X was always 10.
When I visited Khovanova's blog, I searched for poetry -- one of my finds was a wedding poem composed by Gregory Adam Marton; here are its opening lines:
In this summation, may there be no subtraction;
May you multiply blissfully, and find no division;
May the roots of the power of your love run deep;
Marton's complete poem is available here.