Larry Lesser, one of the very few whose job and surname rhyme, is a UTEP Distinguished Teaching Professor at The University of Texas at El Paso. He has published 120 papers in STEM education and 170 STEM-related songs and poems. Outside STEM, his album SPARKS yielded four Finalist nominations, an award, and an invited performance at the 2021 New Mexico Music Awards..

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Poetry ⨂ maths ?

Larry Lesser says: "I created this mathematical visual poem in 2017 inspired by Cantor’s Ternary Set, formed by removing the open middle third of a line segment and then repeating the process ad infinitum with the remaining shorter segments, yielding a set that is nowhere dense and yet uncountable. I displayed the first few iterations from a word with a power of 3 number of letters, and for symmetry I chose the palindrome REDIVIDER, whose meaning seemed fitting for this process of dividing each segment into thirds and, as a bonus, the next iteration is still an English word. (By starting with a non-palindromic word such as BORROWING or TOWELLING, all three rows would be words and a brilliant later extension with a sentence of 27 words is Michael Naylor’s “Entirely Nothing” in the Bridges 2020 Poetry Anthology)."

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