a question both deep and profound
is whether a circle is round.
in a paper by erdos
published in kurdish
a counter-example is found.
a question both real and complex
is whether a sphere is convex
the problem’s proposer
the famed leo moser
believes it depends on the sex.
or so i’ve read somewhere.
lucky for you, that’s all i’ve memorized.
here’s sue v.’s math poetry wiki.
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Community College Calculus (S '09)
Math 148: Precalculus (W '09)
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February 16, 2010 at 9:42 pm
Are you going to put this one on your page there? Change that last stanza to talk about things self-referential, and it’ll go great! ;^)
February 17, 2010 at 9:48 pm
these aren’t mine. i learned ‘em in grad school.
February 17, 2010 at 10:45 pm
(oops… i get it now…)
February 18, 2010 at 10:10 am
cited 2005 in _discover_ here:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/08/24/mathematical-poems/
i wrote one along their lines in grad school.
vinay deodhar was regular faculty and a
bang-up algebra teacher. steve tesser
was a post-doc and a buddy of mine.
professor tesser
said to deodhar
my favorite thing
about
has always been…
from time immemorial…
its nice relation
to n!
December 21, 2010 at 7:31 am
It is said that after erdos read that poem he wanted to publish a result in kurdish, but couldn’t find a kurdish math journal