Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics

Mathematical language can heighten the imagery of a poem; mathematical structure can deepen its effect. Feast on an international menu of poems made rich by mathematical ingredients -- and gathered here by JoAnne Growney, whose personal website is at https://joannegrowney.com/ .

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Showing posts with label Katherine Johnson. Show all posts

Friday, February 21, 2025

Black History Month Celebrates Math Women

Black mathematicians and female mathematicians often have not been given the credit they deserve -- and I have been delighted to find ...

Monday, March 7, 2022

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

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

Tuesday, June 8, 2021

A Life Made to Count

The title of this blog-post is part of a headline from The Washington Post -- a headline for a review by GW Professor Lisa Page of a...

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Learn of MATH WOMEN in POEMS!

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

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Alice's Adventures in Numberland

Recently I was alerted to some postings by Alice Silverberg -- she is a professor of mathematics and computer science at the Universit...

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Honor Math-Women ...

The first math-woman that inspired me was Laura Church ; the first famous math-woman (someone with a theorem named after her ) whom ...

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