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Creative Writing

Claremont Colleges

Journal

2019

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Full-Text Articles in Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Our Binary World, Simona Carini Jul 2019

Our Binary World, Simona Carini

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

A poem about counting in binary, life, and love.


What The Wasp Said, Hugh C. Culik Jan 2019

What The Wasp Said, Hugh C. Culik

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

On a bright spring day, the ancient building housing the English and Logic Departments begins to slowly collapse on itself, trapping McMann (an inept English professor) and Lucy Curt (a logician) in the office they share. As the Fibonacci repetitions of the building’s brickwork slowly peel away, McMann seizes the moment to tell Lucy stories about skunks, stories whose recurrent pattern finally leads to the unrecognized connection between a “message” burned into his ear by a wasp and the orderly universe for which he cannot find a language. At last, he looks up only to see Lucy descending a ladder, …