Showing posts with label Romanian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romanian. Show all posts
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...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

A poem is an equation?

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     Exiled Romanian poet Nina Cassian (1924-2014) spoke with a daring and imaginative voice that I have much admired.  And she occasionall...
Thursday, October 8, 2015

Toward Infinity . . .

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     During summer teaching opportunities a dozen or more years ago in Deva, Romania I met Doru Radu who taught English there -- and our mut...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Truth and Beauty

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     In both mathematics and poetry, truth and beauty are linked.  The true is likely to be beautiful, the beautiful is considered likely to...
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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Monday, October 4, 2010

"The Reckoning" by M. Sorescu (Romania,1936-96)

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Works by poet and playwright   Marin Sorescu (1936-1996) continue to be popular with Romanian readers--and he is one of the most-frequently...
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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...