Our guest speaker this Wednesday March 11: Lisa Lajeunesse! PLUS: New filmed interview with Lisa's math-poetry-music presentation

UPDATE: Lisa recorded a Zoom interview with me today (Friday) doing her presentation from our class last Wednesday -- plus a few new insights and ideas! Here is the link to the filmed interview.

ADDITIONAL EDIT: Lisa sent me this information and link to the software that helps with writing a Graeco-Latin Square Poem:

First of all, here is the link to the paper:
https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2019/bridges2019-35.pdf

The last section "Writing a Graeco-Latin Square Poem" talks about a few techniques I used to help, although maybe you want to discover your own techniques.

The online software was kindly written for me by a colleague Joseph Fall and can be found at:
https://powderflask.github.io/gls-poetry/

Joseph has some vocabulary categories with random words that you can select from a drop-down box on the right to play with, but of course you can enter your own words for the square.
The words are entered as a list in the right lower-half of the page.
I look forward to reading your and your students' Graeco-Latin square poems!

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As with Nick Sayers, it took Lisa nearly two hours to do her presentation, which focuses on connections with mathematical poetry and music, Crab Canons, Graeco-Latin Squares, Hemachandra/ Fibonacci sequences and the golden ratio, and so much more! 

It's really fascinating, but long to watch -- so I suggest you might want to watch it at 1.5 speed, and maybe break it into several shorter viewings. For those who were not able to attend class last Wednesday: Do try out writing one of the Goldie or Golden Fibble poems she describes, and if you try the playing card four-square puzzle, you will really get a good understanding of Graeco-Latin squares (and the poetry connected with them).

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Hello everyone! I'm thrilled that we'll be having Lisa Lajeunesse as our guest speaker this coming Wednesday, sharing her vast knowledge and experience as a mathematical poet, musician, mathematics professor at Capilano University, and aeronautics engineer. Lisa is a great person, and integrates the arts into her teaching of advanced topics in mathematics.

Here are links to the handouts and a short film Lisa would like to have available for our Wednesday class:

1. Short film about the symmetrical structure of Bach's Crab Canon on a Möbius strip
2. Math poetry puzzle page 1
3. Math poetry puzzle page 2
4. Math poetry puzzle page 3)
5. Math poetry puzzle page Bridges family day update
6. Puzzle page: Graeco-Latin square poems
7. Modulor poetry
8. Sestinas
9. Handouts of forms (Fib poems, Goldies, Golden Fibble, Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic)

Looking forward very much to Lisa's visit!