Abstract / Synopsis
It's the thought that counts? No, it's this canzone that counts! This poem explores the philosophy of counting through five stanzas from shoreline pebbles to Godel's incompleteness theorems. Counting becomes our guide through Zeno's paradoxes, irrational numbers, Cantor's infinities, and quantum measurement problems. The poem counts, recounts, and discovers that some things simply cannot be counted.
Recommended Citation
Robin Young, "Count," Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 16 Issue 2 (July 2026), pages 435-437. . Available at: https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol16/iss2/27
