Showing posts with label Lewis Carroll. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lewis Carroll. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Poetry with Numbers -- from Lewis Carroll

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     One of the timeless treasures on my bookshelves is a complete collection of work by Lewis Carroll (pen name for Charles Lutwidge Dodg...
Monday, November 13, 2017

Logic and Poetry -- from Lewis Carroll

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     Australian poet Erica Jolly  has alerted me to Lapham's Quarterly  -- a magazine, both print and digital, that offers the view that...
Monday, September 21, 2015

Choosing what words mean . . .

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     Nineteenth century writer and mathematician Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) gave his character, Humpty Dumpty, these words :  "When I u...
Monday, June 29, 2015

Celebrating angles and rainbows . . .

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Sunday, June 8, 2014

Impossible Things Before Breakfast

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Literary works by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898, aka Lewis Carroll ) are crammed with mentions of mathematics.   One of my favorites ...
Monday, February 10, 2014

To love, in perfect syllables

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     While looking for Valentine verse with a math connection, I opened my copy of The Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carroll (Chancel...
Monday, February 14, 2011

Puzzles, puzzlers, and parody

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     For lots of fun, go to plus online magazine at this link to find a poem that requires a knight's tour of a chess board for you to...
Monday, January 24, 2011

Poem and parody -- isomorphic?

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In mathematics, algebraic systems that have different objects but the same structure are described as isomorphic .  The parody in poetry il...
Monday, November 15, 2010

Special square stanzas

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My   recent posting  ( November 14 )  of a symmetric stanza by Lewis Carroll illustrates one variety of  "square" poem -- in which...
Sunday, November 14, 2010

Symmetric stanza

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Although the following stanza by mathematician-author  Lewis Carroll  first appears to be a merely melodramatic example of Victorian verse, ...
Sunday, July 18, 2010

David Blackwell (1919 - 2010) -- and Game Theory

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     David Blackwell, the first black scholar to be admitted to the National Academy of Sciences, a probabilist and statistician, died early...
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Monday, May 17, 2010

Sense and Nonsense

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     Nonsense verse has a prominent place in the poetry that mathematicians enjoy. Perhaps this is so because mathematical discovery itself...