Dan Lukiv

The Physics Student, poetry Dan Lukiv

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.