Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics

Mathematical language can heighten the imagery of a poem; mathematical structure can deepen its effect. Feast on an international menu of poems made rich by mathematical ingredients -- and gathered here by JoAnne Growney, whose personal website is at https://joannegrowney.com/ .

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Monday, June 6, 2016

A poem, a contradiction . . .

One stra tegy for proving a mathemat ical theorem is a " proof by contradiction ." In such a proof one begins by supposing t...

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Daughter and Father - a warm geometry . . .

Kate Stange is a mathematician -- from the Canadian province of Ontario and now at the University of Colorado -- whose father, Ken Sta...

Saturday, December 13, 2014

Our curve is a parabola

Found in the essay, " Intellect " (1841) -- these words by 19th century American philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-...

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

A big voice, Galway Kinnell (1927-2014)

Last week master poet Galway Kinnell died ( NYTimes obituary ). One finds a detailed bio and a baker’s dozen of his best poems at the ...

Monday, September 15, 2014

Remembering Lee Lorch

Lee Lorch was a mathematician known for his social activism on behalf of black Americans as well as for his mathematics. He died in ...

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Land without a square

Here is a bit of light verse from the pen of John Updike (1932-2009). ZULUS LIVE IN LAND WITHOUT A SQUARE by John Updike ...

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