A special treat (optional viewing): Recorded Zoom interview with mathematician, poet, musician and aeronautics engineer Lisa Lajeunesse!

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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Hello everyone! Lisa Lajeunesse has recorded a Zoom guest speaker interview with me today (Friday), sharing some of 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 is the link to Lisa's filmed interview.

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. 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).

Here are links to the handouts and a short film Lisa would like you to have access to in connection with her talk:

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)

Hope you enjoy these -- so many exciting artworks, patterns and connections!