Showing posts with label Fibonacci. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fibonacci. Show all posts
Monday, August 21, 2023

Shaping a Poem with Fibonacci numbers

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      One of my favorite websites to visit is this varied and thoughtful " Poetry and Mathematics "  collection of postings by Mar...
Monday, June 5, 2023

Number Patterns in Nature

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     Naval Academy engineering professor and math-poetry fan Gregory Coxson  has recently introduced me to poetry by Mattie Quesenberry Smit...
Monday, November 23, 2020

Happy Fibonacci Day!

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        Today, November 23 is Fibonacci Day . . . How are you celebrating?  Twitter poet Brian Bilston (@Brian_Bilston) has posted a Fibo...
Monday, September 24, 2018

Celebrate math students -- a Fibonacci poem!

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     South Dakota mathematician Dan May teaches mathematics at Black Hills State University where he also leads workshops for middle school...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Twelveness -- a Fibonacci poem from G4G

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      Science writer, philosopher, and skeptic Martin Gardner (1914-2010) is perhaps best known for his long-running Scientific American c...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

In the Tuscan sun

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View the statue in Pisa of Fibonacci, mathematician in the sun.  
Friday, April 3, 2015

Mathematics and poetry -- are the same ! ! !

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Last week the Art Works Blog posted an interview with mathematician, poet, and translator, Enriqueta Carrington .  You will want to follow ...
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Friday, October 10, 2014

Taken out of context . . .

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Sometimes good lines fit so well into their poems that their individual merits go unrecognized.  And then, taken out of context, they can le...
Saturday, June 22, 2013

Why is SHE less known? . . .

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Sometimes matching words to a syllable-count helps to bring focus to my musings.  Here are two stanzas for which I used the Fibonacci number...
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Friday, November 23, 2012

Women Scientists in America

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That one, Mary Gray ,  is bold, mathematical, and female.  One of the founders (one-nine-seven-one) of the Association for ...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Poetry in DC -- counting sheep

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The Washington, DC area offers a rich diversity of poetry events -- workshops and readings, contests and conferences.  An excellent way to ...
Sunday, October 16, 2011

A small Fib

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My dilemma    I've    lost    the art    of careful    thought, asea in floods    of  trivial   information.               by JoA...
Friday, February 4, 2011

AWP avoids mathematics

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I am currently attending the 2011 AWP* Conference and am disappointed that none of the sessions involves connections of writing with mathem...
Sunday, October 31, 2010

The Fib -- a form that gathers strength

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The "Fib" is a poetry form in which the numbers of syllables per line follow the pattern of the Fibonacci numbers.  (See also Apri...
Thursday, April 29, 2010

A Numerical Poem (Fibonacci)

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Consider the following poem involving the Fibonacci numbers:           1/89 = .0        +                   .01        +                   ...
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Monday, April 19, 2010

Poems with Fibonacci number patterns

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In 21st century poetry, there are a variety of non-rhyming forms--and several of them have derived from the Fibonacci numbers. *  The Danis...
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