Showing posts with label Emily Dickinson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Emily Dickinson. Show all posts
Monday, October 7, 2019

The Cube of the Rainbow

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     Later this week a scheduled screening ( in nearby Takoma Park, MD ) of a film about Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) has prompted me to ret...
Friday, July 20, 2018

Counting insects, counting on them . . .

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     Recently I had the opportunity to vacation in southern Portugal with my older daughter and her family and there -- with clear, bright-b...
Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Truth in a circle . . .

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     In these days when the truth-value of so much of what I hear broadcast is difficult to assess I have been drawn back to a poem by Emily...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Emily Dickinson

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     Although I do not consider any of Emily Dickinson's poems "mathematical," I find that she does not shy from using the te...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Emily Dickinson -- and circumference

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     Great poets may be investigated from many points of view.  For Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), some have noticed that her work employs p...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

A whole and its parts

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     Aristotle may have been the first to assert that a whole is more than the sum of its parts .  Mathematics textbooks are likely to say ...
Friday, June 18, 2010

Three poems with the word "axiom"

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Poems that contain  "number" are numerous; those with "axiom" are less easily found.  Here are 3 of them -- by 19th cent...