Abstract / Synopsis
This poetry folder is made up of two short trios. The first begins with “Methods,” a thirteen-line poem by Britt Kaufmann, and continues with two thirteen-line responses to it. The folder’s second half consists of three (non-thirteen-line) responses to a collection of thirteen-line-almost-sonnets by Philip Fried, who had in turn been inspired, during the pandemic, by Edwin Abbot’s Flatland.
Both Kaufmann and Fried are authors of previous JHM poetry folders. Poems from Kaufmann’s book Midlife Calculus appeared in the January 2025 issue and poems from Fried’s series At the Dimensional Border appeared in the July 2024 issue. In addition, they are accomplished poets who have published widely.
On a much smaller scale, my five poems here have appeared on worksheets assigned to my calculus students.
Recommended Citation
Kevin Farey, "Poems for a Calculus Class (After Reading Midlife Calculus and At the Dimensional Border)," Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 16 Issue 1 (January 2026), pages 393-397. . Available at: https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol16/iss1/25
Response to Article
Philip Fried, Poems from the Series "At the Dimensional Border"
