Sarah Glaz is an algebraist (University of Connecticut) who uses poetry to teach mathematics. At her web page, scroll down to "Recent Articles" to see titles and links to three such papers. One of the articles is "The Enigmatic Number e: A History in Verse and its Uses in the Mathematics Classroom" -- and it contains an annotated version of the poem whose opening stanzas are found below; it's found in the Digital Library of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), Loci: Convergence (April 2010).
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Showing posts with label Euler. Show all posts
Monday, April 18, 2011
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
The epitome -- Euler's Identity
Mathematics is a visual language. As with poetry, placement on the page is a key ingredient of meaning. Here is one of my favorite visual poems, "The Transcendence of Euler's Formula," by Neil Hennessy, a Canadian poet and computer scientist. For additional math-poetry from Neil, follow the link.
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epi+ome
epItome
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