Meaning of mathemaku | Babel Free

Definitions

A genre of pseudohaiku which combines a very short poetic structure with elegant mathematical expression; also, an example of this genre.

countable, rare, uncountable

Examples

“1988, Bob Grumman, Mathemaku II, main title”

“Each mathemaku’s math was central to it, not just an ad hoc ingredient in a some section of it. [¶] I was quite pleased with what I’d accomplished, but for some reason was only able to add a single unfinished mathemaku to my mathe-poetic oeuvre over the next twenty years or so.”

“Mathemaku for Beethoven”

“Poet/critic Bob Grumman…[is] best known as a poet for his hybrid of haiku and mathematics, the “mathemaku.””

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