an abstract canvas
where geometry sketches
algebra’s portrait
Ben Orlin
Math with Bad Drawings
The Mathematician’s Haiku Book
Category: High School: Geometry
Moon
square the radius
Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
and then multiply by pi—
full moon in autumn
from Math in Seventeen Syllables
3/14/15
In America,
Lawrence M. Lesser
Pi Day of the Century
was transcendental!
from Math in Seventeen Syllables
Moon
Surface seeming flat,
Kevin Farey
at moon’s eclipse its shadow
argues otherwise.
from Math in Seventeen Syllables
Translation
translate, rotate, scale;
Maggie Weber
shapes dance in shifting grids as
axes pirouette
from Math in Seventeen Syllables
Triangle Inequality
It is shorter to
Walk straight there—The Triangle
Inequality
Lora Newman
from Math in Seventeen Syllables