Showing posts with label algebra. Show all posts
Showing posts with label algebra. Show all posts
Sunday, December 20, 2015

Who put the pie in Pythagoras?

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Irish poet and physicist Iggy McGovern has written both humorous and serious verse.  Today we have lines from him that startle and amuse -...
Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Colorful mathematics for your smartphone

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     "Bhaskara II (1114-1185) was an Indian mathematician and astronomer. He composed the Siddhanta Siromani , a treatise in four parts...
Sunday, October 4, 2015

A mathematician's favorite poet

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     A summertime gift book that I have much enjoyed reading is Love & Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality by Edward Frenkel (Basic Book...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Hate Math -- 21 Reasons (NOT) . . .

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Two four-letter words that I want NEVER to be used TOGETHER are hate and math .  A lively contradiction to my wish is provided by the follo...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Algebra (sort of) in a short story

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  Tomorrow I head to Baltimore for the BRIDGES Math-Arts Conference. Explore the conference program at this link .  Would love to see you...
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Thursday, October 30, 2014

Tomorrow is Halloween

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Typing Halloween in this blog's SEARCH Box will lead you to a 2010 posting of "Ghost Stories Written"  -- an algebra-related p...
Sunday, August 3, 2014

A math prof's lament

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The mathematical connection for this poem is the fact that it was inspired by regrets for a missed opportunity in a mathematics class -- an ...
Friday, June 27, 2014

Of all geometries, feathery is best . . .

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The title for this post comes from Twinzilla ( The Word Works , 2014), by Charleston poet Barbara Hagerty .  The title character of this co...
Friday, January 10, 2014

The discipline of mathematics

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This poem remembers one of my students.        The Prince of Algebra       by JoAnne Growney        Madam Professor,        let me intro...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Solving equations . . .

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Although poets as long ago as Henry Lok (1553?-1608?), Elizabeth Tollett (1694-1854), and William Blake   (1757-1827) used mathematical ...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

Algebra cadabra

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It was my good fortune to meet Colette Inez back in the early 1990s when she was poet-in-residence at Bucknell University. Then, as now, I ...
Thursday, July 18, 2013

BRIDGES 2013 -- Math-Art in the Netherlands

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Since 1998, Summer BRIDGES Conferences have been held -- enthusiastic gatherings where theater and visual art and music and poetry and math...
Thursday, July 11, 2013

Counting on numbers

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Alan Michael Parker 's anthologized and highly regarded poem "Family Math" begins in the style of a typical word-problem from...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Is Algebra Necessary?

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     Anticipating my interest, several friends sent me links to a late-July opinion piece in The New York Times entitled "Is Algebra ...
Thursday, July 5, 2012

Visit BRIDGES -- for (art and) poetry

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This growing-then-melting syllable-snowball poem is offered in recognition of mathematician-and-poet Sarah Glaz and as a reminder of the po...
Monday, March 5, 2012

Poetic Explorations of . . . Mathematicians

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In the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics ( Volume 1, Issue 2 ), we find "Numen R ology: A Poetic Exploration of the Lives and Work of ...
Sunday, January 29, 2012

Juxtaposition

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One of my favorite phrases (loved for the sound of it) first came to my ears during my college studies of  abstract algebra: " multipl...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Attitudes of Numbers

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     I like Bruce Snider 's "The Certainty of Numbers" (which you may already have found online at The Poetry Foundation web...
Thursday, April 7, 2011

A poetic perspective on algebra

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     Last Monday (April 4), the Washington Post had an article concerning the value of Algebra II   as a predictor of college and work succ...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Teaching Numbers

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Californian Gary Soto   writes for both children and adults and much of his work suits both groups.  Here from A Fire in My Hands (Houghton...