Showing posts with label Bridges Conference. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bridges Conference. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics

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      Daniel May -- professor at Black Hills State University in South Dakota -- enjoys not only teaching mathematics to future teachers bu...
Monday, June 19, 2023

BRIDGES Math-Poetry in Halifax -- July 27-31, 2023

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     BRIDGES, an annual conference that celebrates connections between mathematics and the arts, will be held this year in Halifax Nova Scot...
Thursday, April 13, 2023

Seeing the World through a dual prism . . .

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     Based in Melbourne, Australia, Tom Petsinis is a mathematics adviser at Deakin University and is author of nine poetry collections a...
Monday, August 8, 2022

BRIDGES Conference 2022 -- Math-Poetry

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      A couple of months ago ( here in my June 8 posting ) I offered a link to information about poetry to be offered at the 2022 Bridges Ma...
Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Counting, women, loving mathematics

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     Here is another Cento from BRIDGES -- for background information, please see my August 4 posting -- this one composed by Erinn and Cat...
Monday, July 17, 2017

A CENTO from BRIDGES 2017 Poets

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     A cento is a literary work made from quotations from other works -- most often it is a poem, assembled from lines by other poets.    Be...
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Thursday, June 22, 2017

Euclid's Iron Hand

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      Alice Major is a Canadian poet who admits to having loved mathematics since girlhood and who often includes mathematical ideas and im...
Monday, September 21, 2015

Choosing what words mean . . .

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     Nineteenth century writer and mathematician Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) gave his character, Humpty Dumpty, these words :  "When I u...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

Mathematical Modeling

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My friend and colleague, University of Connecticut mathematician Sarah Glaz , is an accomplished poet and is active in coordinating math-poe...
Saturday, August 30, 2014

Mathy Poetry from Bridges 2014

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     This year's math-arts conference, Bridges 2014 , was in Korea.  And a dozen of us who write poetry-with-mathematics -- unable to at...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Writing mathy poems - a student activity

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On the web-page of mathematician-poet Sarah Glaz I found a link to this file of math-related poems that she prompted students to write whe...
Saturday, July 20, 2013

Poets at BRIDGES

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These seven poets will be reading math-related poems at the upcoming (July 27-31) BRIDGES Conference in Enschede, the Netherlands ; biograph...
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Thursday, July 18, 2013

BRIDGES 2013 -- Math-Art in the Netherlands

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Since 1998, Summer BRIDGES Conferences have been held -- enthusiastic gatherings where theater and visual art and music and poetry and math...
Sunday, March 10, 2013

Celebrate 3.14 with poems of Pi

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     Soon this year's version of the date 3.14 will arrive.  Pi-day!      At the 2012 Bridges Conference in Towson MD I had the oppor...
Saturday, November 10, 2012

Symmetry in poetry

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In Euclidean Geometry, objects retain their size and shape during rigid motions (also called symmetries ); one of these is translation -- ...
Friday, August 3, 2012

JHM -- many math poems

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     Volume 2, Issue 2 (July 2012) of the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics has recently become available online -- and it has lots of p...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

For Hazlett -- an Exquisite Corpse poem

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At the recent  BRIDGES Math-Art Conference at Towson University, I led a Sunday afternoon Poetry-with-Mathematics Workshop .  One of our wr...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Bridges in Coimbra

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     Newton's binomial is as beautiful as Venus de Milo.      What happens is that few people notice it.                 -- Fernando...
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