{"id":194,"date":"2009-07-29T14:21:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T14:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/2009\/07\/29\/math-in-poetry-poetry-in-math\/"},"modified":"2016-07-31T20:30:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T01:30:56","slug":"math-in-poetry-poetry-in-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/2009\/07\/29\/math-in-poetry-poetry-in-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Math in Poetry, Poetry in Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content\">\n<p>You hear a fair amount about the mathematically inclined people who are really into music. You hear less about that subset<br \/>\nof the same group who are into poetry, and particularly, poetry and math together.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You may already be familiar with the poems of Tim Davis. He's also contributed some poems on my blog starting with <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/2008\/04\/01\/matlab-language-translator\/#comment-28108\">this comment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I just ran into this set of poems that were collected for a homework assignment for a course on Numerical Methods, tailored for mechanical engineers. 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