Showing posts with label Bloomsburg University. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bloomsburg University. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 30, 2020

The Doomsday Rule

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     My recently posted mention of Tristian Bangert's poem about John Horton Conway (1937-2020) sent me looking through my files for m...
Friday, December 18, 2015

A student writes poetry for a math class . . .

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A recent fun experience for me has been correspondence with Melanie Simms , a poet and math student at Pennsylvania's Bloomsburg Univers...
Saturday, March 7, 2015

The mathematician, she . . . .

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     Tomorrow, March 8, is the International Day of the Woman -- and I celebrate the day with mixed feelings.  YES, there are many women I ...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

Poetry in a math text

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     In the 1980s, all students at Bloomsburg University were required to take at least one mathematics course and I worked with colleagues...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Teaching math (?maths) is complex

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     In the midst of a teaching career in Bloomsburg University I spent a year in an administrative position -- the school needed time to se...
Friday, June 8, 2012

Computer code -- is poetry?

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Dubliner Eavan Boland is a master poet (and one of my favorites); Ireland shares her with the creative writing program at Stanford Universi...
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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 ...
Sunday, June 5, 2011

Math lyrics -- Lehrer et al

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Mathematicians with poetic tendency often use their word-talents to write song-lyrics rather than poems; a master of the song-writing art wa...
Friday, October 15, 2010

Voices in a Geometry Classroom

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I have been invited to return next week ( October 20 at 7 PM ) to Bloomsburg University, where I taught mathematics for lots of years, for a...
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Monday, August 16, 2010

Poetry and applied mathematics

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Back in the 1980's when I began taking examples of poetry into my mathematics classrooms at Bloomsburg University , I think that I justi...