Showing posts with label William Wordsworth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Wordsworth. Show all posts
Monday, August 26, 2024

World's Most Interesting Mathematician

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      Angela Tabiri , a young mathematician from Ghana, in July captured global attention by winning the title,   World’s Most Interesting M...
Wednesday, May 26, 2021

A Rhymer and an Analyst -- a Friendship

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     Several recent emails have turned my attention again to Irish mathematician (?and poet?) William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865).  Availabl...
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Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Poetry sometimes OPPOSES mathematics!

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     One of the finest historians of mathematics is Judith V. Grabiner, professor emerita of Pitzer College;   here is a link to one of her...
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Monday, September 18, 2017

Irish poet McGovern to visit US

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     Irish poet and physicist Iggy McGovern will visit the US in October and is scheduled to read at  The Writer's Center in Bethesd...
Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Are we speaking of "mathematics" or "poetry"?

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     This week started with the excitement of an email message from Evelyn Lamb with a link to her Scientific American blog where she crea...
Friday, July 3, 2015

A Voice Meant to be Spoken

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     Last month the Library of Congress named a new poet laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera , a Californian and Mexican-American whose work often...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

On poetry and geometric truth . . .

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          On poetry and geometric truth           And their high privilege of lasting life,           From all internal injury exempt,  ...