This poem by Hanns Cibulka (1920 - 2004) -- translated from the German by Ewald Osers -- is collected in the anthology, Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics, edited by Sarah Glaz and me (A K Peters, 2008).
Mathematics by Hanns Cibulka (trans. Ewald Osers)
And the angel of numbers
is flying
from 1 to 2...
—Rafael Alberti
Showing posts with label Integral. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Integral. Show all posts
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Love mathematics!
In the stanzas below, I have some fun with math terminology. Hope you'll enjoy it too.
Love! by JoAnne Growney
Love algebra! Through variable numbers
of factored afternoons and prime evenings,
party in and out of your circle of associates,
identify your identity, meet your inverse.
Love! by JoAnne Growney
Love algebra! Through variable numbers
of factored afternoons and prime evenings,
party in and out of your circle of associates,
identify your identity, meet your inverse.
Labels:
arithmetic,
calculus,
chaos,
identity,
imaginary,
Integral,
inverse,
Mobius band,
pi,
prime,
rational,
real,
symmetries,
tangent
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Surprise me!
Bob Grumman, a mathy poet whose work has appeared in this blog (21 June 2010) and a blogger, has recently been invited to write a Guest Blog for Scientific American. Here is a wonderful sentence about poetry that I have taken from his posting on 22 September 2012 (the third of his guest postings).
And I claim that nothing is more important for a poet
than finding new ways to surprise people with the familiar.
And I claim that nothing is more important for a poet
than finding new ways to surprise people with the familiar.
Visit Grumman's Guest Blog to find his illustrations of poetic surprise; after a pair of visual poems, ten x ten and Ellipsonnet, he discusses a poem by Louis Zukovsky in which the poet describes his poetics using the integral sign from calculus:
∫
Zukovsky's definite integral (which Grumman tells us is carefully copyright-protected) has the lower limit "speech" and upper limit "music."
Labels:
blog,
Bob Grumman,
information,
Integral,
John Beer,
Louis Zukovsky,
pantoum,
permutation,
Scientific American,
surprise
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Remembering Sophia Kovalevsky
With Reason: A Portrait by JoAnne Growney (June 2012)
Sophia Kovalevsky * (1850-1891)
Because she was Russian . . .
Because she had abundant curly hair . . .
Because she loved mathematics . . .
Because she was born in the 19th century . . .
Because lecture notes for calculus papered her nursery walls . . .
Because her parents forbade her to leave home . . .
Because a woman could not travel abroad from Russia
without her father or a husband . . .
Because she found a kind man to marry . . .
Because ideas came to her in torrents . . .
Because she married a man she did not love . . .
Labels:
calculus,
Cauchy,
fixed point,
Integral,
Karl Weierstrass,
mathematics,
poetry,
Russia,
Sophia Kovalevsky
Friday, September 2, 2011
Two ways to compute 1/3
Labels:
Betsy Devine,
cosine,
cube root,
David Pleacher,
e,
Integral,
Joel E Cohen,
limerick,
log,
mathematics,
pi
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Integrals -- a poem
Integrals by Jonathan Holden
Erect, arched in disdain,
the integrals drift from left
across white windless pages
to the right,
serene as swans.
Erect, arched in disdain,
the integrals drift from left
across white windless pages
to the right,
serene as swans.
Labels:
Integral,
integration,
Jonathan Holden,
mathematics,
poetry,
sum,
swan,
tables
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