Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good. from Shakespeare's Macbeth
Shakespeare's lines above are part of a collection of Halloween Poems offered at this link by the Poetry Foundation -- not a mathy group of poems but fun to read at this time of year. Enjoy!
Showing posts with label Shakespeare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shakespeare. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Halloween Poems
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Man Ray's "Human Equations"
Art lovers in Washington, DC have the opportunity (until 5/10/15) to see, on exhibit at The Phillips Collection, "Man Ray -- Human Equations: A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare." I visited the exhibit on February 19 on the occasion of a poetry reading by Rae Armantrout -- she presented work of hers that she felt captured the spirit of Man Ray's work. (Bucknell poet Karl Patten, whom I had as a poetry teacher years ago, insisted that "Every Thing Connects" and, indeed, this is the title of one of the poems in Patten's collection The Impossible Reaches. Both of these phrases that became titles for Patten seem also to describe Man Ray's and Armantrout's work: they have taken seemingly disparate objects and reached across seemingly impossible gaps to relate them. As often happens in mathematics.)
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Truth and Beauty
In both mathematics and poetry, truth and beauty are linked. The true is likely to be beautiful, the beautiful is considered likely to be true.
Early in April I visited an interdisciplinary mathematics-and-literature class at Arcadia College to talk with them about some of the ways mathematics influences poetry. The course I visited was was aptly titled "Truth and Beauty." Thanks to Marion Cohen -- mathematician, poet, and course professor -- and to her students for the enjoyable time we had together.
Today, thinking back to that Arcadia class, I offer a translation of a poem by Romanian poet Marin Sorescu (1936-1996) which links the mathematics of counting to the literary god, Shakespeare. Enjoy.
Early in April I visited an interdisciplinary mathematics-and-literature class at Arcadia College to talk with them about some of the ways mathematics influences poetry. The course I visited was was aptly titled "Truth and Beauty." Thanks to Marion Cohen -- mathematician, poet, and course professor -- and to her students for the enjoyable time we had together.
Today, thinking back to that Arcadia class, I offer a translation of a poem by Romanian poet Marin Sorescu (1936-1996) which links the mathematics of counting to the literary god, Shakespeare. Enjoy.
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Macbeth and Probability
Kansas City educator Michael Round of the Center for autoSocratic Excellence has developed a host of math teaching tools -- and within them he often uses rhyming verses amid his diagrams and his prose. Here are the opening lines of an activity in which he links Macbeth with probabilities:
The Royal Route He Took: A Shakespeare Poem
by Michael Round
This Shakespeare tragedy,
Macbeth, you know the name.
His eventual downfall thinking
Probability is a game.
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