Mathematical Poetry · Interactive

Interactive Math Narratives

Equations you can play, and poems whose structure you can move through. Each piece pairs a written narrative with a mathematical relationship you can explore by hand.

The Flammarion engraving: a traveller pushes his head through the boundary of the sky
Interactive Narrative · 1983

Psychronometrics

Time runs faster as you get older, because a year is a smaller fraction of a longer life. Enter your own birthday and a parent’s, and watch that ratio read as Einstein’s time dilation — from one day old out to a googol years.

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Prometheus's Epistle to Job
Mathematical Poem · Interactive Explorer

Prometheus’s Epistle to Job

Two men who suffer by decree. The suffering of the pious set as the arrogance of their God over His ostentatious generosity — an equation you can solve three ways.

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V = h( g( f( I ) ) )
Interactive Narrative

The Equation — Ignorance to Violence

Averroes’ chain — ignorance to fear to hate to violence — read as a composition of functions, where the chain rule shows why breaking one link breaks it all.

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