Poem In Which Krishna Appears As a Heron

Life: A Poem

Kumar Krishna, in appreciation

It is with admiration and fondness that we dedicate this special issue of ZooKeys to Professor Kumar Krishna, dean of Isoptera research. This collection of papers is a humble testament of appreciation by the various biologists who are dedicated to studying termites, insects that are popularly maligned but actually of profound behavioral and ecological importance. Kumar’s influence extends beyon...

Aditi Krishna

A Heron Diierence

Is it possible that the lengths of two sides of a primitive Heron triangle have a c ommon factor? The triangle with sides 9, 65, 70 and area 252 shows that this is possible. But notice that the common factor 5 is a prime of the form 4+1. Surprisingly, however, such a common factor cannot be a prime of the form 4 ; 1. Heron's name is familiar to anyone who has used the formula = p s(s ; a)(s ; b...

A critical care holiday poem.