Showing posts with label Emily Grosholz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Emily Grosholz. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Math-poetry in The Mathematical Intelligencer

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     In a recent e-mail, this message:  " The Mathematical Intelligencer . Vol. 42 No. 2 is now available online."   Most Intelli...
Thursday, July 18, 2019

Math-Poetry -- Linz, Austria -- 07/19/2019

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     On Friday, July 19, 2-4 PM at the 2019 Bridges Math-Arts Conference in Linz, Austria will be a Reading of Mathematical Poetry that fe...
Thursday, July 7, 2016

Remembering Reza Sarhangi

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     In 1998 at Southwestern College in Winfield, KS an Iranian mathematician, Reza Sarhangi , organized the first of a series of annual Bri...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

In Praise of Fractals

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     Philosopher Emily Grosholz is also a poet -- a poet who often writes of mathematics. Tessellations Publishing has recently (2014) pub...
Thursday, September 19, 2013

BRIDGES poems, from 17 poets

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Due to the hard work of mathematician-poet Sarah Glaz , poetry has been an important part of recent BRIDGES-Math-Art Conferences . And, unde...
Monday, February 25, 2013

One of the best -- and a woman

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Women in mathematics have not been much-written-about.  This blog has made  a few corrective efforts and more are needed. Perhaps change is ...
Monday, August 8, 2011

Can a mathematician see red?

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Held late in July, this year's 2011 Bridges (Math-Arts) Conference in Coimbra, Portugal included a poetry reading for which I'd be...
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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Friday, September 24, 2010

Reflections on the Transfinite

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      Georg Cantor (1845-1918), a German mathematician, first dared to think the counter-intuitive notion that not all infinite sets have t...