Abstract / Synopsis
Clerihews are poems of a form invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley around the turn of the 19th-20th century. The poems are typically biographical, humorous, and are made up of two couplets. The rhyming pattern is always aabb, but the meter of the two couplets is usually not the same. The first line is simply the name of the person, the other three lines relate to the subject, often in an absurd way. If the rhyme is slightly off, or the rhythm irregular or awkward, or the facts a bit confused, so much the better. The present collection of clerihews, written by members of the Bridges poetry community and curated by E. R Lutken, offers readers a brief, whimsical tour through the history of mathematics.
DOI
10.5642/jhummath.YEQU3708
Rights Information
This is a collection of individual works; contributors retain the rights to the material they contributed.
Recommended Citation
"Mathematical Graffiti: Bridges 2023 Clerihew Collection," Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 14 Issue 2 (July 2024), pages 602-611. DOI: 10.5642/jhummath.YEQU3708. Available at: https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol14/iss2/22
