{"id":80,"date":"2025-08-13T19:45:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T19:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-summer-2025\/?p=80"},"modified":"2025-08-15T17:23:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T17:23:28","slug":"proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-summer-2025\/proof\/","title":{"rendered":"Proof"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This sonnet by Emilynne Newsom \u201925 won the college-level category of the 2025 American Mathematical Society Math Poetry contest, which celebrates creativity at the intersection of math and poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2025 Math Poetry Contest Winner (College), &quot;Proof&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5xW8FjJjkt8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-mudd2021-wrapper footnote\">\n<p>There is a practice you will see in math. <br>It is a way of showing what is true. <br>In steady step-by-step it lays a path <br>from what you know to what you seek to prove. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A finding takes a lot of getting lost<br>in circles that we cannot comprehend,<br>but even patter ns knotted up and crossed<br>can find a line that leads us to its end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is an order to the way of things.<br>Perhaps it is an order we can find.<br>The math is in the universe\u2014it sings<br>in such a way that we can harmonize. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And when our logic comes out sound and clear<br>we hear it in the ring of truth\u2014we\u2019re here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sonnet by Emilynne Newsom \u201925 won the college-level category of the 2025 American Mathematical Society Math Poetry contest, which celebrates creativity at the intersection of math and poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}