Showing posts with label JoAnne Growney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label JoAnne Growney. Show all posts
Monday, September 23, 2024

September Brings THE BLOOMSBURG FAIR

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     During the past weekend, long-time friends in Pennsylvania have reminded me that this is the week of The Bloomsburg Fair -- an annual ...
Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Picture a Mathematician . . . describe HER . . .

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     Mathematicians are not always white and nerdy and male . . . but, for the others who dare to specialize in science and mathematics, the...
Thursday, February 11, 2021

A Math-Poetry Essay -- in the Time of Corona

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     Springer Publishing is developing an e-book, Mathematics in the Time of Corona , an online collection of various reactions to the pande...
Tuesday, September 29, 2020

TalkingWriting with Mathematics

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     TalkingWriting is an online journal that's celebrating its 10th birthday -- TEN YEARS of including mathematics in its mix of poet...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Links to mathy poems . . .

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     The Annual Bridges Math-Arts Conference will not be meeting this year but mathematician Sarah Glaz has arranged for lots of math-poeti...
Monday, March 23, 2020

Celebrating 10 Years of Math-Poetry Blogging

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     This blog's first posting, "Poetry of Logical Ideas" -- found here , occurred ten years ago today on March 23, 2010.    T...
Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Observe Pi-Day by writing in Pilish

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      Many poets use constraints to shape their writing but few are as constrained as mathematician Mike Keith who has written many works i...
Monday, March 9, 2020

"Numbers and Faces" and 23 more math poems

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     "Numbers and Faces" is the title of a poem by W. H. Auden -- and I also have used it as the title of a collection of poems t...
Monday, September 9, 2019

Is TWO more than ONE?

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     A poetry friend reminded me recently via email of the poetry of Shel Silverstein  (1930-1999) -- both humorous and provocative.  The em...
Monday, August 26, 2019

Counting the Women . . .

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     Sometimes a professional group or a meeting-agenda or a table of contents contains so few women's names that they are easily counte...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2019

An Interview of/by a Mathy Poet

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     University of Connecticut mathematician-poet Sarah Glaz has interviewed me on behalf of the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts .  The...
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Monday, July 2, 2018

BRIDGES, 2018 -- math-art-poetry -- in Stockholm

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       During each summer since 1998 , mathematicians and visual artists, poets and musicians, have gotten together at a BRIDGES conference ...
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Thursday, May 26, 2016

Mathy poems OUT LOUD

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     Here is a link to "Applied Mathematics" written and recited by London poet Dan Simpson .   This link leads to several math-a...
Friday, October 23, 2015

JMM Seattle, 1-7-16 -- Poetry+Math+Art

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 Read your mathy poems in Seattle ! An invitation to participate -- in January!   Read on!  ANNOUNCING Poetry + Art + Math  January ...
Monday, March 23, 2015

March 23 -- Emmy Noether's birthday

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Today, March 23, 2015, Google celebrates the 133rd birthday of mathematician Emmy Noether .  In support of the celebration here is a link ...
Sunday, December 28, 2014

A Fractal Poem

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    A fractal is an object that displays self-similarity -- roughly, this means that the parts have the same shape as the whole -- as in th...
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Thursday, December 25, 2014

A thousand Christmas trees

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My email poem-a-day today from www.poets.org is " Christmas Trees " by Robert Frost (1874-1963) ; this 1916 poem includes some c...
Sunday, October 26, 2014

Dimensions of Discovery

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Along the one-dimensional straight line there are points and segments but no curves or squares. In the flat plane of two dimensions  t...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Poetry Reading 1-11-15 at JMM in San Antonio

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You are invited to a poetry reading  sponsored by the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics at the 2015 Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) ...
Saturday, August 23, 2014

Changing colors, counting syllables

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Changing Colors by JoAnne Growney Blue yoyo -- awkwardly stopping-starting, rising-plummeting, seeking self-control. Ple...