Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics

Mathematical language can heighten the imagery of a poem; mathematical structure can deepen its effect. Feast on an international menu of poems made rich by mathematical ingredients -- and gathered here by JoAnne Growney, whose personal website is at https://joannegrowney.com/ .

Showing posts with label Benoit Mandelbrot. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Benoit Mandelbrot. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Similar, self-similar -- fractals, a poem

In geometry two objects are said to be similar if they have the same shape --- which happens if their angles are the same size and oc...

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Fractal Geometry

Lee Felice Pinkas is one of the founding editors of cellpoems -- a poetry journal distributed via text message. I found her poem,"Th...

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

From order to chaos -- a sonnet

Fractals by Diana Der-Hovanessian Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare ...

Sunday, October 17, 2010

The Length of a Coastline

In the nineties, fifteen or so years ago, when I began posting mathematical poems on the Internet, two of my earliest connections were Ken S...

Friday, May 14, 2010

Poems starring mathematicians - 6 (Mandelbrot)

More familiar than the name Benoit Mandelbrot are images, like the one to the left, of the fractal that bears his name . Born in Poland ...

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