Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Volume 5 | Issue 2 July 2015 Mathematical Double Dactyls Tristan Miller Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: hp://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm Part of the Other Mathematics Commons , and the Poetry Commons ©2015 by the authors. is work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. JHM is an open access bi-annual journal sponsored by the Claremont Center for the Mathematical Sciences and published by the Claremont Colleges Library | ISSN 2159-8118 | hp://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/ Recommended Citation Miller, T. "Mathematical Double Dactyls," Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 5 Issue 2 (July 2015), pages 171-172. DOI: 10.5642/jhummath.201502.19 . Available at: hp://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol5/iss2/19

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Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

Volume 5 | Issue 2 July 2015

Mathematical Double DactylsTristan MillerDepartment of Computer Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, [email protected]

Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm

Part of the Other Mathematics Commons, and the Poetry Commons

©2015 by the authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.JHM is an open access bi-annual journal sponsored by the Claremont Center for the MathematicalSciences and published by the Claremont Colleges Library | ISSN 2159-8118 | http://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/

Recommended CitationMiller, T. "Mathematical Double Dactyls," Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 5 Issue 2 ( July 2015), pages 171-172. DOI:10.5642/jhummath.201502.19 . Available at: http://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol5/iss2/19

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Mathematical Double Dactyls

Tristan Miller

Department of Computer Science, Technische Universitat Darmstadt

[email protected]

Jin Wicked

www. jinwicked. com

Quadrature

Higgledy-piggledyBryson and Antiphon,π-seeking polymaths–what a strange pair!

Oddly, their method ofcircumferentiallyinscribing polygonscircled the square.

Paradox

Higgledy-piggledyZeno of Elealeft to get tickets forSophocles’s play.

Slowly his steps becameinfinitesimal:motionless, Zeno gotstuck at halfway.

Apprehension

Higgledy-piggledyArchie of Syracuseburned Roman ships with hissecret heat ray.

Marcellus asked, “Why sopyromaniacal?”“Don’t touch my circles!” wasall he would say.

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Vol 5, No 2, July 2015

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About the author

Tristan Miller is a computational linguist, ferret herder, and logologist. Hispoetry, puzzles, and humorous prose have appeared in Light, Word Ways: TheJournal of Recreational Linguistics, Babel: The Language Magazine, and TheAnnals of Improbable Research.

About the illustrator

Jin Wicked is a Houston-based studio artist and cartoonist. Her critically ac-claimed portrait of Alan Turing is featured in Andrew Hodges’s biography AlanTuring: The Enigma.

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