Showing posts with label Miroslav Holub. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Miroslav Holub. Show all posts
Monday, April 24, 2023

Where Will the Parallels Meet?

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      One of my favorite poets -- with a varied selection of mathy poems -- is the Czech poet Miroslav Holub (1923-28), an immunologist as ...
Thursday, December 3, 2015

Which hat? (from Slovenia)

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     For a long time I have highly valued the work of Eastern European poets -- including Wislawa Szymborska , Miroslav Holub , Nichita Stan...
Saturday, February 28, 2015

Reflections on Logic

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Miroslav Holub (1923-1998), Czech poet and immunologist who excelled in both endeavors, is one of my favorite poets.  He combines scientifi...
Sunday, June 30, 2013

Miroslav Holub -- "what use is it?"

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     In earlier postings I have expressed my admiration for the Czech poet Miroslav Holub (1923-1998)  -- a research scientist who also wro...
Friday, April 5, 2013

Miroslav Holub -- interview, poems

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Frequent readers of this blog probably know that Miroslav Holub is one of my favorite poets.  And it was a great delight to get a recent e-...
Sunday, May 22, 2011

Spacetime

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   Spacetime      by Miroslav Holub (1932-1998)    When I grow up and you get small,    then --
Tuesday, April 5, 2011

What color is 3?

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     Long before there were six-digit hexadecimal codes for color (red #FF0000 or green #000800), there were paint-by-number craft activiti...
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Monday, December 20, 2010

"M" is for Mathematics and . . .

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Today's poem by Miroslav Holub  (1923-98) is square , having 5 lines of 5 letters each; it describes the letter M by using what is "...
Thursday, December 9, 2010

8 January 2011 -- Math-Poetry at JMM

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Here's an invitation for math-poets -- at 5 PM on Saturday, January 8 at the 2011 Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans there will ...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

From Miroslav Holub -- a reflection on accuracy

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In applications of mathematics, as in other scientific research, it is important to distinguish between the precision of measurements (how ...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Poems starring mathematicians - 4

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Each of today's poems is in the voice of a student who looks back.  First, from Carol Dorf, a poem to the author of a book--written as a...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Miroslav Holub, poet and scientist

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Miroslav Holub (1923-1998), Czech poet and immunologist who excelled in both endeavors, is one of my favorite poets.  He combines scientif...