Showing posts with label Grace Murray Hopper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grace Murray Hopper. Show all posts
Monday, March 7, 2022

International Day of the Woman -- 03-08-2022

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 Celebrate Math-Women with Poems Throughout the history of mathematics, women have often been excluded or ignored.  This is changing.  I off...
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Monday, May 4, 2020

Remembering Eavan Boland, Grace Hopper

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     Irish poet Eavan Boland (1944-2020) died last week and news of her death has caused me to look back and remember.  In this year in wh...
Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Learn of MATH WOMEN in POEMS!

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 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE WOMAN Sunday, March 8, 2020       Often it is difficult to find time for history in mathematics courses.  One ...
Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Celebrate Math-Women with Poems!

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March is Women 's History  M onth! March 8 is International Women 's Day! and here i n this blog we  celebrate  math-women   wi...
Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Name five!

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     A recent mailing from the National Museum of Women in the Arts offered me this challenge:  name five female artists!  Including friends...
Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Problems with no solutions

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     The syllable-square stanza is a poetic form I often turn to when scientific terminology gives me little hope of matching traditional pa...
Saturday, March 7, 2015

The mathematician, she . . . .

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     Tomorrow, March 8, is the International Day of the Woman -- and I celebrate the day with mixed feelings.  YES, there are many women I ...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

Seeking poems about math-women

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In this blog I have previously posted poems that speak of the lives of these math-women:      Sophie Germain (1776-1831)      Floren...
Friday, June 8, 2012

Computer code -- is poetry?

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Dubliner Eavan Boland is a master poet (and one of my favorites); Ireland shares her with the creative writing program at Stanford Universi...
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