Dramatis persona*

helenhead Helen Chick

I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"!

I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1!

* Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona.

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90. Triangle [100 poems challenge]

 

90.          Triangle

There is, in every orchestra,
Kept with the xylophone,
A three-ways folded metal rod
That plays a single tone.
Its primitive simplicity
Musicians might resent,
But does its artful symmetry
Make maths folk feel content?
Well, though they recognise its sound
And find it rather quaint,
Geometry’s definition says
A triangle it ain’t.

23 July 2013

 

Comments: I had the idea for a few days but […]

July 30th, 2013 | Category: Maths, Poems | Leave a comment

500th post

I don’t think that anyone’s wondered
If we’re getting near post five hundred
When I press “submit”
This one will be it …
Provided the count hasn’t blundered.

30 July 2013

I had thought about some sort of extended celebration/reminiscing/analysis together with a beautiful photo and some wit, but I haven’t posted today’s “100 poems challenge” poem, the materials for […]

July 30th, 2013 | Category: Poems | Leave a comment