the nimble speedboat
riding along in the wake
of a massive ship
Ben Orlin
Math with Bad Drawings
The Mathematician’s Haiku Book
Tag: Proof
Paradox
a wound that logic
left to its own devices
inflicts on itself
Ben Orlin
Math with Bad Drawings
The Mathematician’s Haiku Book
Counterexample
brave little David
who topples the Goliath
with a single stone
Ben Orlin
Math with Bad Drawings
The Mathematician’s Haiku Book
Proof
footprints of logic
showing how, where one truth leads,
another follows
Ben Orlin
Math with Bad Drawings
The Mathematician’s Haiku Book
Theorem
Wind-swirled mist rises.
Paul Glendinning
A glimpse of distant mountains.
A theorem is born.
Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester, UK