Showing posts with label Euclid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Euclid. Show all posts
Monday, January 30, 2023

Remembering Charles Simic

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       Recently Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former US poet laureate (2007-2008) Charles Simic has died.  Although Simic's poems wer...
Thursday, May 30, 2019

Delicious Geometry. . .words from Bertrand Russell

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     Sometimes we find that words presented as prose are poetic . . . as these words of British philosopher and mathematician  Bertrand Russ...
Sunday, May 3, 2015

Lines of breathless length

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Brief reflections on definitions of LINE . . .           Breathless length      by JoAnne Growney           A LINE, said Euclid, lies ev...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Remembering Abraham Lincoln

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Today -- April 14, 2015 -- marks the 150th birthday of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) and April 15 is the dat...
Friday, January 30, 2015

Twined Arcs, Defying Euclid

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     The English language has adopted into current usage many terms from other languages.  French terms like coup de grace and haut monde ...
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, April 10, 2014

Fractal Geometry

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Lee Felice Pinkas is one of the founding editors of cellpoems -- a poetry journal distributed via text message.  I found her poem,"Th...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

Homage to Euclid

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In my preceding post ( 20 March 2014 ) Katharine Merow's poem tells of the new geometries  developed with variations of Euclid's ...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

One geometry is not enough

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Writer Katharine Merow is in the Publications Department of the Washington DC headquarters of the MAA ( Mathematical Association of America...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

Poems and primes

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Friday morning, 1-17-2014, looking north from the Baltimore Convention Center        This past week I enjoyed Thursday and Friday at ...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

From order to chaos -- a sonnet

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Fractals    by Diana Der-Hovanessian                               Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare                                ...
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Sunday, November 25, 2012

Lincoln and Euclid -- common notions

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     This afternoon I enjoyed the recently-released film , Lincoln -- appreciating Sally Fields as Mary Todd, Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus ...
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Monday, November 12, 2012

Finding fault with a sphere . . .

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     On November 9 I had the pleasure (hosted by Irina Mitrea and Maria Lorenz ) of talking (" Thirteen Ways that Math and Poetry Conn...
Saturday, October 6, 2012

Geometry . . . a way of seeing

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Today's poem is not only a fine work of art, it is also -- for me-- a doorway to memory.   I first heard it in the poet's voice when...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

An algorithm shapes a poem

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Mathematics sometimes appears in poetry via patterns that follow the Fibonacci numbers . The pattern of Pascal's triangle also has been...
Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Euclid meets Broadway

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Several years ago while visiting my older son in Colorado Springs I also went to nearby Boulder where, driving along Broadway, I came to a s...
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Thoughts Suggested by a College Examination

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Just when I was convinced that mathematical subject matter appears proportionately more in modern than in classical poetry, I turned again t...
Monday, May 30, 2011

Once a student of Euclid

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The Chair     by Charles Simic The chair was once a student of Euclid.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Coleridge: A Mathematical Problem

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 "A Mathematical Problem" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge  (1772-1834) -- found online at Elite Skills Classics  -- uses verse to descr...
Friday, March 18, 2011

Who are our prophets?

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Here is the opening sentence of an article , "Mathematicians and Poets," by Cai Tianxin, a mathematics professor at Zhejiang Unive...