Showing posts with label Robin Chapman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robin Chapman. Show all posts
Thursday, January 6, 2022

Mathematics gives our world its shape . . . fractals

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     Poet  Robin Chapman  and  Julien Clinton Sprott  both were professors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison when their art-poetry coll...
Thursday, June 17, 2021

Images of a Complex World

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     One of the treasures on my bookshelf is Images of a Complex World: The Art and Poetry of Chaos by University of Wisconsin poet Robin C...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Math-poetry in The Mathematical Intelligencer

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     In a recent e-mail, this message:  " The Mathematical Intelligencer . Vol. 42 No. 2 is now available online."   Most Intelli...
Friday, May 20, 2016

In Wyalusing, counting pelicans

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     The number in the title of Robin Chapman 's poem first attracted me to it and the mention of Wyalusing in the first line drew me fu...
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Sieve of Eratosthenes

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The Sieve of Eratosthenes      by Robin Chapman He was an ancient Greek looking for primes, those whole numbers divisible only by 1 a...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Dividing by Zero

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Fairy godmothers have their magic wands and mathematician have division by zero as a way to make the impossible happen -- for example, we ca...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Poetry inspired by Chaos

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Poet Robin Chapman studies the language learning of children -- and has collaborated with physics professor Julien Sprott on a lovely and f...