Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Blog history -- title, links for previous posts . . .

      My first posting in this blog was nearly eight years ago (on March 23, 2010).  If, at the time, I had anticipated its duration, I should have made a plan for organizing the posts.  But my ambitions were small.  During the time I was teaching mathematics at Bloomsburg University, I gathered poetry (and various historical materials) for assigned readings to enrich the students' course experiences. After my retirement, I had time to want to share these materials -- others were doing well at making historical material accessible to students but I thought poetry linked to mathematics needed to be shared more.  And so, with my posting of a poem I had written long ago celebrating the mathematical life of Emmy Noether, this blog began.  Particular topics featured often in postings include -- verse that celebrate women, verses that speak out against discrimination, verses that worry about climate change.   
You're invited to:
Scroll through the titles below, browsing to find items of interest
among the more-than-nine-hundred postings since March 2010
OR 
Click on any label -- a list is found in the right-hand column below the author profile 
OR
Enter term(s) in the SEARCH box -- and find all posts containing those terms.

  For example, here is a link to the results of a SEARCH using    math women 

 And here is a link to a poem by Brian McCabe that celebrates math-woman Sophie Germain.
This link reaches a poem by Joan Cannon that laments her math-anxiety.
This poem expresses some of my own divided feelings.

                                       2017 Posts

     Dec 26  Problems with no solutions
     Dec 20  Counting toward Christmas . . .
     Dec 18  It's time to correct our answers!
     Dec 14  Visual poetry -- schemes with squares
     Dec 12  SPLIT THIS ROCK -- Poetry that takes a stand!
     Dec  6  Math-Poetry from YouTube

Nov 29  Calculating Pi -- a poet's view
Nov 27  Science Poetry from Spain
Nov 22  Burma Shave Mathematics
Nov 20  What is THE GREATEST EQUATION?
Nov 16  Memorization and formulae
Nov 13  Logic and Poetry -- from Lewis Carroll
Nov  9   Stop saying GIRLS can't do MATH
Nov  6   Mathematics -- vital imagery in SO MANY poems . . .  
Nov  3   Probability and astonishment     

Oct 27  Moving from STEM to STEAM in Australia
Oct 25  November 1 deadline for Math Haiku
Oct 24  The Eyes of Isaac Newton . . . and so on
Oct 20  Perfectly Matched -- Poetry and Mathematics
Oct 17  The best words in the best order . . .
Oct 13  Mathy Double Dactyls  

Sept 29  Poetry . . . Mathematics . . . and Attitude
Sept 27  Alice's Adventures in Numberland
Sept 25  Chinese Poem of the Cross
Sept 20  Women Count
Sept 18  Irish poet McGovern to visit US
Sept 15  Love Triangle . . ..
Sept 13  Truth in a circle . . .
Sept 11  Poetry of Colors and Geometry
Sept  7  Halfway down . . .
Sept  5  From Hydrology to Poetry to Infinity . . .
Sept  1  Celebrate Kim Roberts with "Six"

 Aug 30  Pure as a mathematical equation
Aug 28  How does the Triangle relate to the Circle?
Aug 22  More solar numbers
Aug 21  The Sun's poem is infinite . . .
Aug 16  Seeking an EQUATION for LOVE . . .
Aug 14  The wisdom of grooks . . .
Aug  8  Counting, women, loving mathematics
Aug  4  Centos from 2017 Bridges Math-Arts Conference

 July 25  from "The Half-Finished Heaven"
July  9  Three Odd Words 
July  5  Finding poems in Maria Mitchell's words 
   Jun 27  Chains of Reasoning
   Jun 22  Euclid's Iron Hand

     The May 16 posting (link below) deals with an effort to understand an autistic child.  The poem offered on May 9 deals with climate concerns, the lines given on May 3 speak out for immigrants.  Scroll down to find lots more.   Here's a link to posts found using the SEARCH-term circle. 
       Apr 26  Math-Arts Journal -- Free Access 
       Apr 20  Remembering Karl Patten 
       Apr 18  Poetry by Victorian Scientists 
       Apr 14  A Fib for Easter
       Apr 11  Mathematics and Poetry are . . . 
       Apr  6  Prime -- with rhythm and rhyme 

Mar 31  Math and poetry in film
Mar 28  Split this Rock, Freedom Plow Award, April 21
Mar 27  Math-themed poems at Poets.org
Mar 23  Remember Emmy Noether! 
Mar 20  Is unreasonableness ever reasonable?
Mar 16  Julia . . . Set Aside Gender Roles . . .
Mar 12  Again we celebrate Pi !
Mar 10  Circle of Silence -- and sexual harassment
Mar  8  Honor Math-Women ...
Mar  6  The Geometry of Wood
Mar  2  Celebrate Math-Women
     Feb 28  Zero is three!
     Feb 23  The Geometry of Poetry
     Feb 21  An old link but a GOOD one!
     Feb 16  The Infinite    
     Feb 13  Love and Mathematics -- and Valentine's Day
     Feb 13  Read it (math OR poem) more than once . ..
     Feb  9  Like James Baldwin - refuse labels!
     Feb  6  Celebrate Francis Su
     Feb  2  Groundhog Day 2017

Jan 31  Life is Short
Jan 29  Girls can do EVERYTHING!
Jan 26  Ultimately, all mathematics is poetry . . .
Jan 23  All Mathematicians are Equal!
Jan 19  Dickens, from A Tale of Two Cities
Jan 16  Celebrate Martin Luther King
Jan 11  Poems starring mathematicians
Jan  6   2017 is prime!

2016 Posts

      Dec 31  Happy New Year! -- Resolve to REWARD WOMEN!
     Dec 27  Celebrate Vera Rubin -- a WOMAN of science!
     Dec 26  Post-Christmas reflections from W. H. Auden
     Dec 19  Numbers for Christmas . . .
     Dec 15  Remembering Thomas Schelling (1921-2016)
     Dec 12  When one isn't enough ... words from a Cuban poet
Nov 28  Celebrate MATH-POETRY at JMM (1-5-17) in Atlanta
Nov 25  Number-rhymes from Muriel Spark
Nov 21  An immeasurable continuum
Nov 18  A well-constructed language 
Nov 15  Poetry and Protest
Nov  9  So much depends on . . . normality
Nov  7  Happy Birthday, Marie Curie
Nov  3  Calculating costs of pollution ... and other news  
 
       Oct 24  Geometry -- in art and poetry
       Oct 19  Make Something of Nothing ... with Bob Dylan
       Oct 15  Have a Happy "Hamilton Day"
       Oct 14  From order to chaos -- "Fig Tree Rag"
       Oct 11  She argued for Newton's physics
       Oct  6  Be astonished -- National Poetry Day (British)
       Oct  4  Generating a sonnet -- human vs computer 

Sept 28  A Nest of Worlds -- in verse by Margaret Cavendish...
Sept 26  The Bloomsburg Fair -- with theorems and lies . . ...
Sept 21  Math-woman, be bold!
Sept 19  A rumor (in verse) about Alfred Nobel
Sept 15  Keyboard characters make a poem . . .   
Sept 13  A Fib (a perfect circle) -- and some math-po link...
Sept  9  Division by Zero
Sept  6  A counting rhyme, a riddle
     Aug 31  Twelveness -- a Fibonacci poem from G4G
     Aug 29  Math-play via verse (with George Darley)
     Aug 25  Numbers and Faces - poem, anthology
     Aug 22  Math-poetry connects with Carol Burnett
     Aug 17  Swim, Girl, Swim -- thirty-five miles 
     Aug 15  Find math-poetry links in BRIDGES archives
     Aug 11  More from BRIDGES poets . . .
     Aug  8  Words -- and Meanings -- and BRIDGES, 2016
     Aug  4  POETRY -- in the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics...
July 31   Loving the difference quotient ... and more ...
July 25  Homage to Godel
July 21  One thing leads to another -- "Do the Math"
July 19  A number tells the story -- in these Haiku
July 18  String Theory
July 12  Continue to celebrate Szymborska 
July  7  Remembering Reza Sarhangi
July  5  What Math Teachers Do

Jun 29  Revolutions and singularities
Jun 26  Important online sources for mathy poems
Jun 24  Exponential power
Jun 23  A sonnet with numbers 
Jun 20  Wanting things proportional . . .
Jun 16  Women occupy mathematics
Jun 13  When parallel lines meet, that is LOVE
Jun  9  Symbols shape our thoughts
Jun  6  A poem, a contradiction . . .

   May 31  Aesop's fables in verse ... the price of greed ......
   May 26  Mathy poems OUT LOUD
   May 24  The Man Who Knew Infinity
   May 20  In Wyalusing, counting pelicans
   May 18  A math problem or a word problem?
   May 16  Squaring the Circle -- from the POETRY App 
   May 10  A 6 x 6 syllable-square -- and links to more . . ....
   May  6  Poems that count: Eight Buffalo
   May  3  Can you multiply with Roman numerals?

  Apr 28  Talking-Writing offers Math Poems
  Apr 25 "The Mathematician"
  Apr 21 Women in Mathematics Count!
  Apr 18 Remembering Solomon Marcus
  Apr 15 From a math-friend and an Ohio poet
  Apr 13 "The Giraffe" -- a poem for my pocket
  Apr 11  A Diagonal . . . and so little time . . .
  Apr  7  "The Computation"
Mar 31  The Future of Prediction
Mar  7  Inspired by Pi

Jan 21  Math Anxiety

SCROLL DOWN to find titles and dates and links for posts in 2015.

AND follow these year-number links to go to lists of posts through 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2011 -- and all the way back to March 2010 when this blog was begun. At the top of the column to the right is a SEARCH box for the blog and a link that leads to a PDF file of searchable topics and names of poets and mathematicians presented herein.  Scrolling down the right-hand column leads to an almost-complete list of LABELS of poetry-math names and math terms that are linked to a list of blog postings that contain them.
   Dec 31  Precision leads to poetry . . .
   Dec 28  Can a woman learn science (or mathematics)?
   Dec 24  And now welcome Christmas . . .
   Dec 22  Let us not forget . . .
   Dec 20  Who put the pie in Pythagoras?
   Dec 18  A student writes poetry for a math class . . .
   Dec 15  Generalized Pythagorean Theorem--a visual poem? 
   Dec 13  Visual poems with numbers
   Dec 11  Alphamath - poetry built on 4, 8
   Dec  8  Colorful mathematics for your smartphone
   Dec  6  This blog (then and now) and Pascal
   Dec  3  Which hat? (from Slovenia)
   Dec  1  Are we speaking of "mathematics" or "poetry"?

Nov 30  Sustainability needs the arts AND mathematics . . ...
Nov 25  Thanksgiving, 2015
Nov 23  Quoting Isaac Newton . . . . a "found" poem
Nov 19  Axiom: A Mathematics of Poetry
Nov 16  Encouragement from fathers, a second view
Nov 13  Encouragement from fathersNov  9  Limericks for Hedy Lamarr
Nov  5  It is clear that . . .
Nov  2  Artificial Intelligence in the Library . . . 

     Oct 29  Mathematics and Poetry ARE Similar
     Oct 27  The magic of mathematics (in art)
     Oct 23  JMM Seattle, 1-7-16 -- Poetry+Math+Art
     Oct 19  Celebrating waves of light . . .
     Oct 15  Use a phone App to find mathy poems
     Oct  8  Daughter and Father - a warm geometry . . . 
     Oct  8  Toward Infinity . . .
     Oct  4  A mathematician's favorite poet

Sept 28  A subtraction problem
Sept 24  C K Williams -- Three Mile Island 
Sept 21  Choosing what words mean . . .
Sept 18  Words of Ada Lovelace
Sept 15  Shaping sentences with Fibonacci numbers . . . 
Sept 11  Songs of mathematics . . .
Sept  8  It starts with counting . . .
Sept  3  Mathematical Modeling

Aug 31  The answer is NO
Aug 27  Hate Math -- 21 Reasons (NOT) . . . 
Aug 23  Three (or fewer) choices
Aug 18  Caught in an infinite loop . . ..
Aug 14  Primes and a paradox
Aug 12  Reservation Mathematics 
Aug 10  Found on Facebook
Aug  6  Buffalo 6 
Aug  3  MatHEmatics / MatSHEmatics

   Jul 28  Algebra (sort of) in a short story
   Jul 25  Math and Poetry and Climate
   Jul 21  The culture for women in math and the sciences
   Jul 19  Terror/Mathematics
   Jul 16  Celebrating Ada Lovelace   J
   Jul 14  Visual-mathematical poetry
   Jul 11  Math fun with song lyrics
   Jul  8  Things to Count On
   Jul  6  Counting Years -- in p'Bitek's Song of Lawino
   Jul  3  A Voice Meant to be Spoken
   Jul  1  Sex, Maths, and the Brain

Jun 29  Celebrating angles and rainbows . . .
Jun 27  The power of eleven
Jun 24  Found poetry -- Mary Cartwright
Jun 22  Uncertainty . . .
Jun 21  Seeing the NEWS in square stanzas
Jun 17  Judith Grabiner and Howard Nemerov
Jun 16  Imagine a Fractal
Jun  9  Square stanzas for Women in Maths 
Jun  5  A portrait of TB in numbers
Jun  2  17 syllables -- and other art  

       May 26  Galileo in Florence
       May 20  In the Tuscan sun
       May 14  Sonnets from The Voyage of the Beagle
       May 13  Folk music -- counting syllables
       May 10  Stars and men revolve in a cycle . . . 
       May  8   Include Arts in STEM -- and have STEAM !
       May  6   Balancing Opposites -- Tagore's Epigrams
       May  3   Lines of breathless length
     Apr 29  A poem for your pocket
     Apr 25  Geometry of baseball
     Apr 22  Earth Day -- April 22, 2015
     Apr 19  April celebrates Math and Poetry
     Apr 14  Remembering Abraham Lincoln 
     Apr 11  Time is no straight line . . .
     Apr  7   Man Ray's "Human Equations"
     Apr  3   Mathematics and poetry -- are the same ! ! !

Mar 31  April is . . . a time for math and poetry . . .
Mar 29  Science Verse
Mar 26  The problem of time
Mar 23  March 23 -- Emmy Noether's birthday
Mar 22  March 21 -- World Poetry Day
Mar 19  Multiplied by Rain
Mar 17  A Russian toast (with mathematics)
Mar 13  Three Greguerías
Mar 10  Similar, self-similar -- fractals, a poem
Mar  7  The mathematician, she . . . .
Mar  6  Celebrate Pi -- write in Pilish
Mar  3  Women in Maths -- on Facebook

Feb 28  Reflections on Logic
Feb 24  Found poetry - words of Dirac
Feb 21  How many grains of sand?
Feb 16  The numbers say it all . . .
Feb 13  America, land of equals (perhaps)
Feb  9   Surreal parabola, Mobius strip
Feb  6   Celebrate Black History, Valentine's Day
Feb  5   Moebius Strip
Feb  2   Is winter half over? 
     Jan 30  Twined Arcs, Defying Euclid
     Jan 26  Poetry-math images; Expectation
     Jan 22  Girls who like math
     Jan 18  Probability and Coincidence
     Jan 14  To add two and two
     Jan 10  Opposites, Balance
     Jan  8  The Geometry of Winter, with Eagles
     Jan  6  from MIT Science-Poetry -- The Cal-Dif-Fluk Saga
     Jan  3  The Role of Zero

 The following year-number links to go to lists of posts through 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2011 -- and all the way back to March 2010 when this blog was begun. 
     OR, rather than scrolling, do a SEARCH:  near the top of the right-hand blog-column is a SEARCH box for the blog and a link that leads to a PDF file of searchable topics and names of poets and mathematicians presented herein.  Scrolling down the right-hand column leads to an almost-complete list of LABELS of poetry-math names and math terms that are linked to a list of blog postings that contain them.

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