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 Caroline Herschel. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Caroline Herschel. Show all posts

Monday, March 1, 2021

Celebrating Math-Women -- Caroline Herschel

In the United States, March is National Women's History Month -- and today I am looking back to previous postings that celebrate a...

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Women Count

Today's commentary by Washington Post writer Dana Milbank offered a forceful reminder that women are often talked-over by men. M...

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Women's History -- celebrate Caroline Herschel

In the sixties when I spent a year at Bucknell University, I was a member of the "Department of Astronomy and Mathematics," a...

Monday, August 26, 2013

Celebrating a math-woman

I am continually searching for poems that feature past and current math-women. When you find one (or create one) I will be glad to have yo...

Monday, September 3, 2012

An instrument in the shape of a woman

Celebrating math-women with poetry is a project to which I devoted several postings earlier this summer -- see, for example, these Ju...

Saturday, July 21, 2012

She had a way with numbers

In Letters from a Floating World , artist and poet Siv Cedering (1939-2007) has given us a poignant portrait of astronomer (and math-woman) ...

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