On my mind in recent days is the problem of "so little time." About a year ago I posted a wonderful mathy poem by Californian Brenda Hillman
about time. The complete poem is available here; below I supply the opening lines:
Time Problem by Brenda Hillman
The problem
of time. Of there not being
enough of it. ...
Over the six years of this blog, the most-visited post has been "Varieties of Triangles" with poetry by Guillevic. Here is another of that poet's charming geometric offerings:
Diagonal by Guillevic (Englished by Richard Sieburth)
To get where I have to go
I claim right of way.
Because I provide communication
Between two angles
I take precedence
I take up residence.
I cross first,
Come what may.
"Diagonal" is found in Guillevic's Geometries,from Ugly Duckling Presse (2010). Buy it!
Living on the border of Washington DC I am exposed to items of local history for our nation's capital. One such item involves the "discovery" of Langston Hughes (1902-1967) by poet Vachel Lindsay (1879 - 1931) at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, a leading conference hotel in the city. A second story is a mathematical one. Martha Euphnemia Lofton Haynes (1890-1980), a fourth-generation Washingtonian, was the first black woman to earn a PhD in mathematics -- conferred in 1943 by Catholic University.
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