Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics

Mathematical language can heighten the imagery of a poem; mathematical structure can deepen its effect. Feast here on an international menu of poems made rich by mathematical ingredients . . . . . . . gathered by JoAnne Growney. To receive email notifications of new postings, contact JoAnne at joannegrowney@gmail.com.

Showing posts with label Ben Orlin. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Ben Orlin. Show all posts

Thursday, January 16, 2025

A Tetrahedron leads to a Poem

Minnesota teacher and writer Ben Orlin has done lots and lots to make mathematical ideas popular and accessible. One of his prominen...

Friday, March 4, 2022

Poetry of ideas -- an anagram, a palindrome

Minnestoa math teacher Ben Orlin 's website Math with Bad Drawings is a fun place to visit and Orlin often posts on Twitter -- br...

Monday, November 8, 2021

A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems

Celebrate Raymond Queneau (1903-1976). In a recent posting, mathy blogger Ben Orlin noted ( here in Math with Bad Drawings ) that 20...

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Fighting the heat -- with limericks!

Brief poems with strict patterns -- like the FIB and the LIMERICK -- are often used to convey mathy messages. Recently this limerick ...

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Memorization and formulae

A website I enjoy visiting is Ben Orlin's MathWithBadDrawings.com . At every mathy website I visit, it is my habit to do a searc...

Sunday, January 19, 2014

Poems and primes

Friday morning, 1-17-2014, looking north from the Baltimore Convention Center This past week I enjoyed Thursday and Friday at ...

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