Showing posts with label Robert Dawson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Dawson. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Antiparticular . . . and so on . . .

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     Writer and St Mary's University (in Halifax) mathematics professor Robert Dawson enjoys composing both poetry and fiction -- and ...
Monday, March 2, 2020

New math poems -- recently found online

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     A couple of days ago an email brought me the Table of Contents of the latest issue (Vol. 42, Issue 1) of  The Mathematical Intelligenc...
Monday, April 29, 2019

Al-gorithms . . . conform or suffer?

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      Thanks to poet/mathematician Scott Williams who alerted me to this work by "a good poet and friend" Stephen Lewandowski , a...
Thursday, January 19, 2017

Dickens, from A Tale of Two Cities

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     Today I am facing tomorrow and the inauguration ceremony of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States.  With many uncerta...
Friday, October 14, 2016

From order to chaos -- "Fig Tree Rag"

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     Robert Dawson , a mathematician and poet from Halifax, Nova Scotia, is wide-ranging in the mathematics that he includes in poetry.  He...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

Hailstone numbers shape a poem

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     One of my favorite mathy poets is Halifax mathematician Robert Dawson -- his work is complex and inventive, and fun to puzzle over.  D...
Sunday, March 2, 2014

Sociology of Numbers

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Robert Dawson is a mathematics professor at St Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia -- an active mathematician who complements his...
Saturday, November 30, 2013

Last year's prediction

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This poem by Halifax mathematician and poet, Robert Dawson , appeared in LabLit   in December 2012 (just in time to offer gentle mocking of...
Sunday, April 15, 2012

Statistics -- a lament

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     Helping me to continue to connect National Poetry Month with Mathematics Awareness Month (with its theme of "Mathematics, Statist...
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