Showing posts with label Alice Major. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alice Major. Show all posts
Thursday, February 8, 2024

Rules that someone made up -- Is that MATH?

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      As frequent readers of this blog know, I am indebted to many people for their contributions of poems -- their own and links to others....
Tuesday, June 14, 2022

The Windmill Proof

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      From Alice Major, Canadian poet and first Poet Laureate of the city of Edmonton, Alberta, I learned of Welsh computer science profess...
Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Poetry and Science

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     Originally from Scotland,  Alice Major is a celebrated Canadian poet whose work often focuses on key ideas in mathematics and science....
Thursday, September 6, 2018

Something or Nothing -- Thinking about Zero

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     The site of the 2019 Bridges Math-Arts conference has been announced  -- it will meet in Linz, Austria next July.  This link leads to ...
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Friday, May 25, 2018

Time comes quantized . . .

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     Earlier this month, I saw a poem ("Time/text") by wonderful Canadian poet and friend Alice Major  on Facebook and she has giv...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

Euclid's Iron Hand

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      Alice Major is a Canadian poet who admits to having loved mathematics since girlhood and who often includes mathematical ideas and im...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Talking-Writing offers Math Poems

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     In recent weeks, the online journal Talking-Writing has been featuring math poems and last Monday they posted my " Skagway Study ...
Friday, August 14, 2015

Primes and a paradox

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       Canadian poet Alice Major has loved and admired science and mathematics since girlhood and this background brings to her mathy poems...
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Thursday, September 19, 2013

BRIDGES poems, from 17 poets

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Due to the hard work of mathematician-poet Sarah Glaz , poetry has been an important part of recent BRIDGES-Math-Art Conferences . And, unde...
Saturday, July 20, 2013

Poets at BRIDGES

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These seven poets will be reading math-related poems at the upcoming (July 27-31) BRIDGES Conference in Enschede, the Netherlands ; biograph...
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Sunday, December 30, 2012

A chance encounter

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     I invite you to celebrate the coming of the new year 2013 with a poem I like a lot.      Alberta poet Alice Major produces poems that...
Saturday, November 10, 2012

Symmetry in poetry

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In Euclidean Geometry, objects retain their size and shape during rigid motions (also called symmetries ); one of these is translation -- ...