Showing posts with label MAA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MAA. Show all posts
Monday, October 20, 2014

Martin Gardner collected poems

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     Last week the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) had a special program honoring Martin Gardner (1914-2010); tomorrow (October 21...
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Monday, September 15, 2014

Remembering Lee Lorch

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      Lee Lorch was a mathematician known for his social activism on behalf of black Americans as well as for his mathematics. He died in ...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

One geometry is not enough

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Writer Katharine Merow is in the Publications Department of the Washington DC headquarters of the MAA ( Mathematical Association of America...
Friday, January 31, 2014

On shoulders of giants . . .

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     Washington, DC is a city rich with both poetry and mathematics.  Last Tuesday evening I attended a Mathematical Association of America ...
Monday, September 23, 2013

A poet re-envisions space

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University of Pennsylvania professor Robert Ghrist , in his September 19 lecture ("Putting Topology to Work") at the MAA's Ca...
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Monday, June 11, 2012

Think Like a Man

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     To publish mathematics,      a woman must learn to think      like a man, learn to write like      a man, to use only her      ini...
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Thursday, May 3, 2012

Pipher -- Math experiments, Pi

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     'Tis a favorite project of mine      A new value of pi to assign.           I would fix it at 3           For it's sim...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

Cryptography -- an MAA lecture and a poem

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     Living near the Silver Spring metro station, on the border of Washington, DC, makes travel to the offices of the Mathematical Associati...
Sunday, October 3, 2010

Art, poetry, and mathematics -- and Rafael Alberti

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On September 23 I was privileged to hear Annalisa Crannell , mathematics professor at Lancaster's Franklin and Marshall College, speak o...