Showing posts with label angle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label angle. Show all posts
Monday, June 13, 2016

When parallel lines meet, that is LOVE

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Bernadette Turner teaches mathematics at Lincoln University in Missouri. And, via a long-ago email (lost for a while, and then found) she h...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

Geometry of baseball

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Many poems are written of baseball; a few of them involve mathematics --  see the posting for April 9, 2010 for math-related baseball poems...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Similar, self-similar -- fractals, a poem

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      In geometry two objects are said to be similar if they have the same shape --- which happens if their angles are the same size and oc...
Sunday, November 30, 2014

Geometry of Love

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     A couple of weeks ago my "Google Alert" linked me to a posting of a science poem concerning "the geometry of love."...
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...
Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Can you SEE the monument?

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Links to non-intersecting celebrations of April as National Poetry Month      and      Mathematics Awareness Month are available here ...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

Angles in Alaska

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Last Thursday evening I was honored to read in Takoma Park's Third Thursday poetry series -- along with poets Judy Neri and Kathleen O&...
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 ...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

A chance encounter

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     I invite you to celebrate the coming of the new year 2013 with a poem I like a lot.      Alberta poet Alice Major produces poems that...
Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Word Play -- "Of Time and the Line"

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Charles Bernstein , poet and teacher,  experiments with poetry   and prefers "opaque" and "impermeable" writing -- to aw...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

The view from here -- or there

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From Nashville math teacher and blogger, Tad Wert , I learned of this poem, "Geometry, Lost Cove" by his Harpeth Hall School colle...
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...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Coleridge: A Mathematical Problem

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 "A Mathematical Problem" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge  (1772-1834) -- found online at Elite Skills Classics  -- uses verse to descr...
Friday, October 15, 2010

Voices in a Geometry Classroom

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I have been invited to return next week ( October 20 at 7 PM ) to Bloomsburg University, where I taught mathematics for lots of years, for a...
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Varieties of triangles -- by Guillevic

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My introduction to French poet Guillevic (1909-97) came from UK poet Tim Love who found three of his triangle poems translated into Italia...
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Thursday, July 29, 2010

A wedding song -- shaped by mathematics

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This posting includes a stanza from of "A Wedding on Earth" by Annie Finch .  In the poet's words: the poem has 11 stanzas wit...
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Miroslav Holub, poet and scientist

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Miroslav Holub (1923-1998), Czech poet and immunologist who excelled in both endeavors, is one of my favorite poets.  He combines scientif...