Showing posts with label Black History Month. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black History Month. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Celebrate Black Mathematicians

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     In January, at the National Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boston, the National Association of  Mathematicians gave this year's Life...
Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Celebrate Black History with Poetry

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     In February now, Black History Month, I look back to one of my favorite poets, Langston Hughes (1902-1967) and bring to you, again, one...
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

If 2017 was a poem title . . .

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     On my shelf is a 2018 anthology entitled Women of Resistance:  Poems for a New Feminism and, in its Table of Contents, I am particular...
Monday, February 4, 2019

Quantum Lyrics -- Poems

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      Quantum Lyrics  (W.W.Norton, 2009) is the title of a poetry collection by A. Van Jordan in which the poet celebrates scientists -- in...
Thursday, February 9, 2017

Like James Baldwin - refuse labels!

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     Last Sunday evening -- instead of watching Super Bowl LI -- in a crowded theater in downtown Silver Spring I watched the recently-relea...
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Monday, February 29, 2016

The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance

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     Audre Lorde  (1934-1992)  is one of my favorite poets; links to my previous postings of her work in this blog are given below.  Here is...
Friday, February 6, 2015

Celebrate Black History, Valentine's Day

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February is Black History Month and on the 14th we celebrate love with Valentine's Day.  To find in this blog a variety of mathy poems...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Excitement of Proving a Theorem

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Wow!  From first sighting, I have loved this description:        I prove a theorem and the house expands:        the windows jerk free to...
Friday, February 22, 2013

Counting for Freedom -- the Amistad trials

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     Josiah Willard Gibbs (Jr, 1839 – 1903) was an American scientist who made important theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, a...
Monday, February 4, 2013

Problems of Translation

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     June Jordan's poem "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language" ( found at PoetryFoundation.org ) uses numbers and mea...
Saturday, February 18, 2012

Langston Hughes could do anything!

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In the 1970s when I was a new professor (at Pennsylvania's Bloomsburg University), a particular colleague and I would chat occasionally ...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Painting tragedy with numbers

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Although words such as "massacre" and "victim" and "buried" help us to understand the effects of disaster and ...