Showing posts with label Nichita Stanescu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nichita Stanescu. Show all posts
Monday, January 16, 2023

A Lecture on the Cube

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     Summer weeks spent teaching English to Romanian students have helped me to learn of several of the country's fine poets and to get ...
Monday, June 22, 2020

Counting on ... and on ... BLACK LIVES MATTER!

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     In these days of learning to recognize the racism and racial injustice that has gone on in the United States for SO LONG I am reminded ...
Monday, April 18, 2016

Remembering Solomon Marcus

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     Almost five years ago I received an email from Romanian mathematician Solomon Marcus in response to my posting of a translation of  a...
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...
Friday, April 18, 2014

Poetry of Romania - Nora School, Apr 24

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     During several summers teaching conversational English to middle-school students in Deva, Romania, I became acquainted with the work of...
Monday, November 12, 2012

Finding fault with a sphere . . .

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     On November 9 I had the pleasure (hosted by Irina Mitrea and Maria Lorenz ) of talking (" Thirteen Ways that Math and Poetry Conn...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

"On the Life of Ptolemy"

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Poetry at its best uses words in new ways.  Mathematics sometimes does that also.  But for a poet to use mathematical terms in new ways ca...
Monday, May 28, 2012

Remembering Israel Lewis Schneider

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     On Monday, October 17, 2011, Israel Lewis Schneider (1924-2011) --  Silver Spring poet and mechanical engineer -- passed away .  I di...
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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Mathematics in Romanian poetry

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     When I first visited Romania, I met Doru Radu, then a teacher of English at Scoala Generala "Andre Muresanu" in Deva. And Do...
Monday, September 26, 2011

Learning to count

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The childhood of Romanian poet Nichita Stanescu (1933-1983) took place during World War II and his teen years during his country's adju...
Monday, June 13, 2011

Stanescu - poetic mathematics

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Today I found a link to a recent article, "Matematica şi poezia ," that considers commonalities among the arts and mathematics and...
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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Mathematics in poetry by Nichita Stanescu

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     Though formerly a math professor, my recent teaching has involved poetry--and I have been fortunate to spend several summer months at S...