Tag: poem

  • Palindrom numbers placed on an image of a coronal mass ejection from the Sun.

    A coronal mass acrostic

    After I mentioned my take on acrostics to a friend, with positional and palindromic acrostics, I was challenged to make a new poem; where not only the alphabetical position of the first letter would, when concatenated, make a palindrome, but also the…

  • Positional and palindromic acrostics

    Recently I learned about a poetic form called Acrostic in a mathematical journal from 1940 called Eureka. An acrostic is a poem or other word composition in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each new line (or paragraph, or…

  • A mathematical poem

    When I read this mathematical poem by Leigh Mercer, I knew I had found a treasure: [latex] \frac{12 + 144 + 20 + 3 \sqrt{4}}{7} + \left ( 5 \times 11 \right ) = 9^{2} + 0 [/latex] A dozen, a gross,…

  • A Brief History of Gravity

    by Bruce Elliot It filled Gallileo with mirth To watch his two rocks fall to Earth. He gladly proclaimed, “Their rates are the same, And quite independent of girth!” Then Newton announced in due course His own law of gravity’s force: “It…

  • Hidden haiku poems in The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

    Did you know? Did you know that old free books from the Gutenberg archive could contain hidden haiku poems? Well, some do. For example, there are hidden haikus in the following books: Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne Oliver…