Showing posts with label anthology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anthology. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

A Nest of Worlds -- in verse by Margaret Cavendish

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     Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) was an English aristocrat, scientist, writer and philosopher .  The following interesting and charming ...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

Numbers and Faces - poem, anthology

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  "Numbers and Faces" is the title of a poem by W. H. Auden that ends with these lines :             True, between faces almost ...
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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Saturday, November 16, 2013

Inequality of Compromise

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This past week I attended a wonderfully stimulating BIRS (Banff International Research Station) Conference   -- a gathering of creative writ...
Sunday, October 17, 2010

The Length of a Coastline

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In the nineties, fifteen or so years ago, when I began posting mathematical poems on the Internet, two of my earliest connections were Ken S...
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Sunday, August 8, 2010

A poem of calculus (of ants on a worm)

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Philip Wexler  plays with the terminology of calculus in this poem:        The Calculus of Ants on a Worm      Swarming tiny      bodie...
Thursday, July 1, 2010

Poetry with Mathematics -- Anthologies

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More than thirty years ago at a mathematics conference book exhibit I stumbled upon Against Infinity:  An Anthology of Contemporary Mathemat...