This posting is brief to encourage you to have time to read Owen Sheers' fine poem several times and let it settle in and be part of you. Thanks to F J Craveiro de Carvalho, University of Coimbra, Portugal, who brought the poem to my attention.
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Poetry and applied mathematics
Back in the 1980's when I began taking examples of poetry into my mathematics classrooms at Bloomsburg University, I think that I justified doing so by considering poetry as an application of mathematics. For example, Linda Pastan applies algebra to give meaning to her poem of the same title. Here are the opening lines.
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