This article explores one of the many manifestations of the mysterious link between mathematics and poetry—the phenomenon of poetry inspired by mathematics. Such poetry responds to the mathematical concerns and accomplishments of the day, be it a ground breaking definition or technique, a long standing unsolved conjecture, or a celebrated theorem. The motivation for writing the poems, their mat...

The hoe—the sound of the word is sweet...the hoe makes everything prosper, the hoe makes everything flourish. The hoe is good barley...the hoe is brick moulds, the hoe has made people exist. It is the hoe that is the strength of young manhood. The hoe and the basket are the tools for building cities. It builds the right kind of house, it cultivates the right kind of fields. It is you, hoe, that...

PURPOSE Elevated intraocular pressure (IOP), the major causal risk factor for glaucoma, often decreases after cataract removal by phacoemulsification ultrasound. In this study, the hypothesis that ultrasound energy propagated through a fluid medium induces a stress response with the potential to lower IOP was investigated. METHODS Normal and glaucomatous trabecular meshwork (TM) cell culture ...

Some of the earliest writings to which we have access introduce myth a human child raised by wolves. Enkidu is “wild” friend Gilgamesh in eponymous Sumerian epic; Romulus and Remus Rome are infants who suckle from she-wolf Lupa; Mowgli's story has been told ever since he was conceived Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book. While this wolf might seem imagine friendly way living with other-than-human b...