From Steve Parkes, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, UK
As a bit of a poet and a bit of a mathematician (and no great shakes at either), I found Peter Rowlett’s piece on mathematics and rhyme entertaining, especially the notion of the pi-ku, a haiku variant with syllables based on 3.14 for its three lines, i.e. 3, 1 and 4. Why stop there, when there are many other mathematical constants? How about a phi-ku using phi (1.68) or an e-ku using e (2.72)(10 August, p 44)?
One of my pi-kus: For circles / π / vital constant. And a phi-ku: Gosh! / 1 subtracted from phi / is the same as 1 over phi.
