Horror Matrices and Other Mathematical Poetry

Welcome my the web page containing my fun poetry ... many with a mathematical theme. For my serious poetry, click here. The title of this page comes from a little-known and bizarre restriction. Postal regulations in the United Kingdom prohibit the sending of "Horror comics and matrices" in regular mail. So what is a Horror Matrix? See below for my interpretation, at the end of the list.

These are listed in order of date written, with more recent poems at the top of the list.

The Mouseholder QR (Wee sparsest QR-factored matrix, ...).
I must go code in the C again
The Tigert
Wee sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous Gator
Gobageek and Punkalunks
Golub Gene
One to Ten and Back Again
Summer high-Q
Ode to a Matrix
Iain Duff
A Duffian Tale
Les Traductions Faibles : Fabulous Translations
A poetic apology in pathetic apogee
From caf to math
With Starbucks crew did Megan brew
Top-posting, bottom-posting, Interleaf-posting, and Composting
Morally triangular matrices
The CISE Ship of State
The number pi, I wonder why.
TJ mathy boy
Matryx! Factyrs!
Star light, Starbucks
O sparse etree, O sparse etree
In Berkeley U did Demmel James
With MathWorks crew did Moler khan
In Boston Mass did SIAM hath
In Berkeley U did Velvel Kahan
Horror matrices for iterative methods.
Horror matrices for direct methods.

Unless otherwise attributed, the author is T.D. Please do not copy-and-paste these poems without permission; link to this page instead.