Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics

Mathematical language can heighten the imagery of a poem; mathematical structure can deepen its effect. Feast on an international menu of poems made rich by mathematical ingredients -- and gathered here by JoAnne Growney, whose personal website is at https://joannegrowney.com/ .

Showing posts with label Garrett Hardin. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Garrett Hardin. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Dangerous Surprises of Exponential Growth

In 1968, while I was in graduate school at the University of Oklahoma, the journal Science published " The Tragedy of the Common...

Friday, April 28, 2017

March for Climate -- again!

The lines below are copied from a posting made on September 20, 2014 -- posted as I finalized plans to travel to New York City for a...

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Visit JHM for Mathy Poems

Today I'd like to direct you to the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics , an online open-access journal that features poetry in each ...

Saturday, February 21, 2015

How many grains of sand?

Sand beaches are places I love to walk. Next to oceans and soft underfoot. Below I post a stanza from Richard Bready's " ...

Saturday, September 20, 2014

Marching for Climate

Today I want to call attention to the growing global concern about climate change accentuated by the United Nations Climate Summit that...

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Tragedy of the Commons

Thinking in syllable-squares, recalling ecologist Garrett Hardin (1915-2003) and his 1968 wisdom, " Tragedy of the Commons ." ...

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