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    The following poem -- "Fayetteville Junior High" by Delaware poet Fleda Brown -- uses mathematical terms in entertainingly describing a romance between two teachers:


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    Celebrated as both a musician and a mathematician was Tom Lehrer (Thomas Andrew Lehrer -- 1928-2025). Lehrer recorded pithy, humorous, and often political songs that became popular in the 1950s and 1960s. Many of his songs parodied popular musical forms, often w...


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    A very important source of poetry with links to mathematics is the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics -- an online journal -- edited by


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    Found in Scientific American: Poetry was humanity's first language technology. AI is the next. Read mire here -- and learn...


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    As you may know aready, British folks uss "maths" as a shortened version of "mathematics" -- while those of us in the U.S. use "math".  A fun-to-visit website that I found recenly is MoreThanMaths.com; at the site (at which postings ended in 2015) a search for "poem" led me to ...


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