One of the challenges posed by a multi-year blog is locating interesting old posts. One of my frequent early topics was "poems starring mathematicians" and I offer links to several of these from 2011 below:
December 8 "Monsieur Probability" by Brian McCabe
November 13 My abecedarian poems, "I Know a Mathematician" and "Mathematician"
July 5 "Fixed Points" by Susan Case -- about mathematicians in Poland during WWII
July 2 "To Myself" by Abba Kovner
January 30 "Mr Glusenkamp," a sonnet to a geometry teacher by Ronald Wallace
January 28 "Mathematician" by Sherman K Stein
And, here is a link, via PoemHunter.com to "The Mathematician in Love," a poem by William John Macquorn Rankine, a poem that appears also in the multi-variable anthology, Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics (AK Peters, 2008), edited by Sarah Glaz and me. Here is the first (of 8) stanza of Rankine's entertaining poem:
A mathematician fell madly in love
With a lady, young, handsome, and charming:
By angles and ratios harmonic he strove
Her curves and proportions all faultless to prove.
As he scrawled hieroglyphics alarming.
Showing posts with label Susan Case. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Susan Case. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Sunday, September 23, 2012
From the Scottish Cafe
A poetry collection by Susan Case (see also 5 July 2011 and 5 August 2011 postings) -- The Scottish Cafe (Slapering Hole Press,
2002) -- celebrates the lives and minds of a group of mathematicians in
Poland during World War II. The observations and insights of Case's poems add new
dimension to the important story of The Scottish Book
-- a book in which the mathematicians recorded problems and
their solutions.
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Friday, August 5, 2011
Banach's Match Box Problem
A poetry collection by Susan Case (see also 5 July 2011 posting) -- The Scottish Cafe (Slapering Hole Press, 2002) -- celebrates the lives and minds of a group of mathematicians in Poland during World War II. Its observations and insights add a new dimension to the important story of the Scottish Book to which it refers -- a book in which the mathematicians reorded their problems and solutions. First published in a mimeographed edition in 1957 by Stanislaw Ulam, The Scottish book: mathematics from the Scottish Café (Birkhäuser, 1981) may now be seen and searched at GoogleBooks. Case's collection includes statements of two of the Scottish Book's problems: here, below, is "problem 193" -- which I offer as a "found poem." A photo of its Scottish Book solution follows.
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