Showing posts with label Against Infinity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Against Infinity. Show all posts
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Triangular Poems

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      A recent return to one of my favorite poetry collections -- alas, now out of print -- Against Infinity: An Anthology of Contemporary M...
Friday, January 19, 2024

Films about math and math-people

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     One of my recent finds has been an article that offers a list of 20 films about math, mathematicians, and math-geniuses .  Eagerly, I o...
Thursday, November 3, 2022

Struggling -- and then, after a while, Knowing

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      Most of my experiences with solving mathematical problems have been challenging at first -- but often, after I explore and collect my ...
Friday, June 17, 2022

Word-Play with Mathematics -- On-Stage

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      One of the rewards from time spent with mathematics or from time spent with poetry is the array of multiple meanings that we find . . ...
Monday, October 4, 2021

Presenting Gauss in Verse

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     German mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) is one of history's most prolific and influential mathematicians -- and he i...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Geometry of a Neighborhood

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      As we walk around, our views of our surroundings change;  lines that look parallel from one view appear to be converging from another ...
Wednesday, April 28, 2021

A Visit to Mathland -- where Reason rules!

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Published in 1979 by PRIMARY PRESS, out of print -- try your library! Before purchasing this anthology (found at a math conference) I had ne...
Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Poet as mathematician

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     Lillian Morrison (1917-2014) was a NYC poet and librarian whose work I first met in the poetry-with-math anthology, Against Infinity ....
Monday, September 15, 2014

Remembering Lee Lorch

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      Lee Lorch was a mathematician known for his social activism on behalf of black Americans as well as for his mathematics. He died in ...
Saturday, June 14, 2014

Number theory is like poetry

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     Austrian-born Olga Taussky-Todd (1906-1995) was a noted and prolific mathematician who left her homeland for London in 1935 and moved ...
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Solving equations . . .

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Although poets as long ago as Henry Lok (1553?-1608?), Elizabeth Tollett (1694-1854), and William Blake   (1757-1827) used mathematical ...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

Inequality of Compromise

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This past week I attended a wonderfully stimulating BIRS (Banff International Research Station) Conference   -- a gathering of creative writ...
Thursday, July 1, 2010

Poetry with Mathematics -- Anthologies

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More than thirty years ago at a mathematics conference book exhibit I stumbled upon Against Infinity:  An Anthology of Contemporary Mathemat...