Showing posts with label Evelyn Lamb. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Evelyn Lamb. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Mathematician of the Day

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     On this date, May 16, in the year 1718, the talented  Maria Agnesi was born.  A great source of historical information about mathemati...
Monday, April 4, 2022

April Celebrates both Math and Poetry . . .

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     April is Math-Stat Awareness Month and here at the American Mathematical Society website are lots of ideas for learning and enjoyment...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Keep Exploring . . .

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     In addition to its published magazine, Scientific American has a large variety of blogs .  One of my favorites was Roots of Unity by ...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Proofs in Poems -- the Sylow Theorems

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     One of my valuable resources during this year 2020 has been the AMS PAGE A DAY CALENDAR by Evelyn Lamb -- published by the American Mat...
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Monday, November 2, 2020

Voting is on the calendar!

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Poetry often surprises us by using familiar words in new ways -- and such is also the case with this cryptarithmetic puzzle -- offered by Ev...
Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Mathy Rhymes

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     Yesterday's note on "A Mathematical Morsel Every Day" -- an American Mathematical Society page-a-day calendar for 2020 as...
Friday, May 15, 2020

A rhyme about a prime

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     Tomorrow, May 16, is the birthday of Pafnuty Chebyshev (1821-1894), who was one of the founders of Russian mathematics and the first t...
Friday, April 3, 2020

The Woman Who Bested the Men at Math

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     An American Mathematical Society Page-a-Day Mathematics calendar , compiled by mathematician and free-lance writer Evelyn Lamb , has le...
Thursday, May 16, 2019

If 1718 is a poem title . . .

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If 1718  is a poem title,  the poem should celebrate Marie Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799) author of the first book about both differential...
Friday, January 6, 2017

2017 is prime!

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     For her December 31 posting in Roots of Unity ( Scientific American blog ) mathematician Evelyn Lamb wrote about favorite primes --...
Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Are we speaking of "mathematics" or "poetry"?

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     This week started with the excitement of an email message from Evelyn Lamb with a link to her Scientific American blog where she crea...
Monday, April 7, 2014

April Celebrates Poetry and Mathematics

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On April 1 (the first day of National Poetry Month and Mathematics Awareness Month ) Science writer Stephen Ornes offered a guest post at...