Research Descriptions – Page 2 – The Math Haiku Project

Corollary

the nimble speedboat
riding along in the wake
of a massive ship
Ben Orlin
Math with Bad Drawings
The Mathematician’s Haiku Book

the strange surrender
when a practicality
yields to a theory
Ben Orlin
Math with Bad Drawings
The Mathematician’s Haiku Book

simple little toy
cupped in the hands of children
like a tiny world
Ben Orlin
Math with Bad Drawings
The Mathematician’s Haiku Book

brave little David
who topples the Goliath
with a single stone
Ben Orlin
Math with Bad Drawings
The Mathematician’s Haiku Book

footprints of logic
showing how, where one truth leads,
another follows
Ben Orlin
Math with Bad Drawings
The Mathematician’s Haiku Book

Wind-swirled mist rises.
A glimpse of distant mountains.
A theorem is born.
Paul Glendinning
Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester, UK

Algebra’s nightmare:
a new finite simple group.
Black ink on fresh snow.
Paul Glendinning
Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester, UK

Unitarily
diagonalizable.
It is just normal.
Joshua Cooper
University of South Carolina

So much more than math
ASA illuminates
like Nightingale’s lamp
Lawrence M. Lesser
originally published by the American Statistical Association

A complex system
But does it mean anything?
It’s complicated.
Mason A. Porter
from Math in Seventeen Syllables