Showing posts with label Strange Attractors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Strange Attractors. Show all posts
Thursday, October 26, 2023

The Thirst to Know HOW MANY?

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    One of the important math-poetry projects that I have been involved in is Strange Attractors:  Poems of Love and Mathematics , a poetry ...
Monday, February 13, 2023

Happy Valentine's Day

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      A perfect way for math-poetry fans to celebrate Valentine's Day is to visit the anthology, Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and M...
Friday, September 9, 2022

Enriching Poetry with Mathematical Ideas

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     An important leader in the community of writers who link mathematics and poetry is Sarah Glaz -- a scholar who is not only a mathemat...
Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Inspired by Ten

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      Here is an intriguing poem by Massachusetts poet Ellen Wehle that focuses on ten ;  it is one of the works collected in Strange Attra...
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Monday, November 9, 2020

Special Days for Mathematics

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Today is the birthday of black mathematician, astronomer, almanac-writer and puzzle-maker Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) -- and some of his ...
Monday, September 9, 2019

Is TWO more than ONE?

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     A poetry friend reminded me recently via email of the poetry of Shel Silverstein  (1930-1999) -- both humorous and provocative.  The em...
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Chains of Reasoning

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     In a recent conversation about mathematics, one of us said, "Mathematics is not about what is true, or cannot be, but is a collect...
Monday, July 18, 2016

String Theory

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     String Theory is a theoretical framework that attempts to explain, among other things, quantum gravity.  Its basic elements are open a...
Thursday, April 7, 2016

"The Computation"

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     Here is a favorite poem of mine -- and it available with many others in the anthology, Strange Attractors:  Poems of Love and Mathemati...
Thursday, November 5, 2015

It is clear that . . .

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     " If I stand "      by Inger Christensen   (Denmark, 1935-2009)                If I stand                alone in the snow...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Dimensions of a soul

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In the poem below, Young Smith uses carefully precise terms of Euclidean geometry to create a vivid interior portrait.      She Considers...
Saturday, March 8, 2014

SHE measures the heavens . . .

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Today is International Women's Day, celebrated with a charming video at google.com and here with lines from Enheduanna (2285-2250 BCE)...
Friday, February 7, 2014

Love and Mathematics -- Please be my Valentine!

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Poet extraordinaire Maxine Kumin (1925-2014) died yesterday.   Here is a link to a wonderful eleven of her poems from Persimmon Tree . ...
Thursday, December 26, 2013

The angel of numbers . . .

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This poem by Hanns Cibulka (1920 - 2004) -- translated from the German by Ewald Osers -- is collected in the anthology, Strange Attractors...
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Monday, November 11, 2013

The minute in infinity

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From   Treatise on Infinite Series       by Jacob Bernoulli Even as the finite encloses an infinite series       And in the unlimited li...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Split This Rock 2014

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     Plan now to attend the 4th national biennial Split This Rock Poetry Festiva l: Poems of Provocation & Witness in Washington, DC, Ma...
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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Saturday, May 26, 2012

Crocheting mathematics

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Charlotte Henderson majored in mathematics and English at Wellesley College and has applied her dual interests as an editor for A K Peters, ...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

A Prayer of Numbers

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     Whether our language is music or mathematics, computer code or cookery --  as we learn to love the language and treat it with good car...
Monday, November 7, 2011

Mathematician-Poet Glaz

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     Sarah Glaz , a professor-mathematician at the University of Connecticut -- and a poet -- is at the forefront of appreciation and advoca...