Showing posts with label Howard Nemerov. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Howard Nemerov. Show all posts
Friday, September 13, 2019

"Creation Myth on a Moebius Band"

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Found at this site , several MINIMS -- brief,thought-provoking poems by Howard Nemerov (1920-1991).  This one deftly uses the mathematical ...
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Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Math-Poetry from YouTube

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     Using "mathematics" as a search term at YouTube.com leads to a huge number of interesting results -- and some of them are po...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Judith Grabiner and Howard Nemerov

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     Last evening at the Distinguished Lecture Series sponsored by the MAA it was my privilege to hear an outstanding presentation by Judit...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Averaging . . . geometry of the center

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Perhaps partly due to his experience as an Air Force pilot during World War II,  Harold Nemerov (1920 - 1991) uses geometry with deft precis...
Friday, September 30, 2011

The square root of Everest

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Of the poets who frequently use mathematical ideas in their work, Howard Nemerov (1920-1991) is one of my favorites.  Recently, while brows...
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Thursday, June 23, 2011

Creation Myth on a Mobius Band

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On the   website of Bert-Jaap Koops , I found this small poem by a poet I admire greatly, Howard Nemerov (1920-1991) .      Creation Myth ...
Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Perfect as soap bubbles

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An alert to today's poem came from Greg Coxson, a University of Wisconsin-educated, Silver Spring-based, radar engineer who loves mathem...
Thursday, August 26, 2010

"Two Pair" by Howard Nemerov

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This poem by Howard Nemrov (1920-1991) uses scientific terminology in ways that seem especially deft:    Two Pair    More money's l...
Monday, August 16, 2010

Poetry and applied mathematics

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Back in the 1980's when I began taking examples of poetry into my mathematics classrooms at Bloomsburg University , I think that I justi...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Howard Nemerov's mathematical imagery

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GETTING IT RIGHT IN LANGUAGE -- Poets and mathematicians alike are concerned with precise statement. Two-time US Poet Laureate Howard Nemero...
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