Showing posts with label Brian McCabe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brian McCabe. Show all posts
Monday, December 6, 2021

Stories of Quadrilaterals

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     Sometimes I have time to browse my shelves and rediscover old favorites.  Several of this blog's much-read poems have come from Sco...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Poems starring mathematicians

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      One of the challenges posed by a multi-year blog is locating interesting old posts.  One of  my frequent early topics was "poems ...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Number personalities

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In his collection,  Zero , Scottish poet Brian McCabe raises questions about numerical classifications.  He begins "The Fifth Season...
Monday, June 18, 2012

Sophie Germain dressed as a man to study math

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One of the fine sources for biographies and other topics in the history of mathematics is MacTutor History of Mathematics archive , hosted...
Thursday, December 8, 2011

Monsieur Probabilty

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In recent months, I have encountered a variety of poems about mathematicians (Links to several of these are provided at the end of this post...
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Sunday, November 27, 2011

How much for a digit of PI?

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Scottish poet Brian McCabe writes playfully of numbers.  In the following poem he imagines an auction of the digits of   π .    Three Poi...
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Division by zero

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The November 2011 issue of the Scottish ezine, The Bottle Imp , is just out and it includes my review of poet Brian McCabe's Zero ( P...