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), 2019. // 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.
