Since 2011 February has been National Haiku Writing Month (NaHaiWriMo); serious celebration of this event requires writing a Haiku each day; for this year's Valentine's Day, I offer a mathy Covid-Valentine Haiku.
LOVE has 4 letters --
2 for my hands, 2 for yours.
We wave, keep distant.
For the NaHaiWriMo blog, go here.
Find lots of MATHY VALENTINES by following this link
to the results of a blog SEARCH using the term "Valentine".
A perfect way for math-poetry fans to celebrate Valentine's Day is to visit the anthology, Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics (AK Peters/CRC Pres, 2008), edited by Sarah Glaz and me. Here is a sample from that collection, a limerick;
There Was a Young Maiden by Bob Kurosaka*
There was a young maiden named Lizt
Whose mouth had a funny half-twist.
She'd turned both her lips
Into Mobius strips . . .
'Til she's kissed you, you haven't been kissed!
*Of Japanese heritage, Kurosaka was born in Lake George, NW -- he became a college teacher and author of science fiction and limericks.
Here is a link to previous Valentine-related postings:
this link leads to blog-search results for "Strange Attractors."
Celebrate Valentine's Day with mathy verse!
Follow this link to see the variety of examples in previous posts.
Numerical or alphabetical constraints often are used by writers to add shape and impact to their writing -- and such was the case in a recent speech by Hakeem Jeffries, New York Congressman and Democratic leader of the House of Representatives as he spoke on January 7 ; Jeffries' speech went through the alphabet -- poetically directing his colleagues toward American Values instead of Autocracy, Benevolence over Bigotry . . . . all the way to Zealous Representation over Zero Sum Confrontation. A wonderful illustration of the value of constraints in shaping ideas!
Create an abecedarian poem of your own:
perhaps for a Valentine --
or to celebrate the coming of spring!
Here is a link to previous instances of abecedarian in this blog -- and below is a sample, my abecedarian portrait of a mathematician.
Because this blog has more than a thousand posts, spread over more than eleven years of posting, finding best information can be challenging. The SEARCH feature in the right-hand column) and this linked file of names of poets and math-people and blog-content topics can be useful. And, when time permits, browsing offers lots of fun. Here, for the curious are the TOP TEN postings -- that is the postings that have had the most visitors since the blog's beginning in March, 2010.
ENJOY!
These are titles and links to the ten posts most visited in this blog since its beginning in 2010.
from September 2, 2010 Rhymes help to remember the digits of Pi
from October 13, 2010 Varieties of Triangles -- by Guillevic
from March 29, 2010 "Mathematical" Limericks
from February 11, 2011 Loving a mathematician (Valentine's Day and . . . )
from September 29, 2017 Poetry . . . Mathematics . . . and Attitude
from February 18, 2011 Srinivasa Ramanujan
from January 8, 2016 The world is round . . . or flat!
from February 22, 2011 Poems of set paradox and spatial dimension
from June 22, 2021 Interpreting Khayyam -- in Rhyme
from April 19, 2010 Poems with Fibonacci number patterns
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