Showing posts with label Jonathan Holden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jonathan Holden. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Poet and Math Teacher Passes On

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     Poet Jonathan Holden (1941-2024) -- who, early in his career, was a math teacher -- died just a few weeks ago.  Seeing his death notic...
Monday, January 3, 2022

India's National Math Day -- Poetic Quotes

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     A recent math holiday that I remembered after it had passed is National Mathematics Day in India -- held on December 22 and celebratin...
Friday, March 31, 2017

Math and poetry in film

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      One of my delights in the last year has been viewing films about poets and mathematicians.   First, " The Man Who Knew Infinity ...
Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Calculus (and calyculus)

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For lots of years I have subscribed to A.Word.A.Day , founded by Anu Garg , and on 3 June 2013  -- offered in the category of "words th...
Sunday, September 18, 2011

Baseball, math, and poetry

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The end of summer approaches and, with it, the end of the baseball season.  This blog celebrated the triplet (baseball, mathematics, poetry)...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

A jar in Tennessee

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     Several of my early insights concerning the connections between poetry and mathematics grew from ideas presented by poet Jonathan Holde...
Friday, February 18, 2011

Srinivasa Ramanujan

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One of the most intriguing tales in the modern history of mathematics involves Indian-born mathematician and genius Srinivasa Ramanujan (18...
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Saturday, January 22, 2011

Integrals -- a poem

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Integrals      by Jonathan Holden      Erect, arched in disdain, the integrals drift from left across white windless pages to the right...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

Hyperbolic effects

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Last month I went to the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History -- for a photo scroll down to t...