The Physics Student, poetry

Entitled For the Math Gyze:

First Edition: serialized in Academic Exchange Extra (Greeley, CO [University of Northern Colorado]), 2004.

Second Edition: LukivPress Online (Quesnel, BC), 2009.

Third Edition: CHALLENGER international (Quesnel, BC), 2011.

Mathematics Edition: LukivPress (Quesnel, BC), 2011.

Each mathematics professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) received the collection as a gift.

Dr. Nassif Ghoussoub, Professor of Mathematics at UBC, published an excerpt of 8 poems from For the Math Gyze, in his Piece of Mind blog (June 7, 2011).

Mathblogging.org also published the excerpt of 8 poems from For the Math Gyze (Summer, 2011).

Revised Edition, under the title of The Physics Student: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2021.

An excerpt

The Mathematics Professor

He stops, mid-

Equation-jumble, mid-thought,

Eyes staring upwards,

Scratching his Garfunkel head

With one end of a chalk stick,

Releasing white dust into his

Hair-nest-

Snow builds up on plaid shoulders,

Even on cracked leather shoes,

Until he jerks into action,

Epiphanied,

Filling the green board with

Further hieroglyphica.

This, in the auditorium of many seats,

For a little clump of fourth-year

Hyperbolic experts,

Who have grown unmoved by these

Blizzards that come

And go.

The author

Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu.