I am continually searching for poems that feature past and current math-women.
When you find one (or create one) I will be glad to have you send it along.
When you find one (or create one) I will be glad to have you send it along.
The lunar crater L Herschel is named for astronomer Caroline Lucretia Herschel (1750-1848) -- and I have celebrated this math-woman earlier with two fine poems: "Letter from Caroline Herschel" by Siv Cedering , and "Planetarium" by Adrienne Rich. Now Herschel is the focus of a forthcoming book by poet Laura Long, The Eye of Caroline Herschel: A Life in Poems, (Finishing Line Press, 2013). Here, from that collection, is "The Taste of Mathematics: Caroline Herschel at 31" -- this poem also appears, along with a note about the full collection, in the July 2013 issue of The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics.
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