Showing posts with label arithmetic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label arithmetic. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Can you multiply with Roman numerals?

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     Canadian writer Siobhan Roberts (whom I know from BIRS workshops) has a recent New Yorker article that celebrates the 100th birthda...
Monday, February 29, 2016

The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance

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     Audre Lorde  (1934-1992)  is one of my favorite poets; links to my previous postings of her work in this blog are given below.  Here is...
Thursday, February 4, 2016

Visiting the Australian Poetry Library

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     An Australian poet ( Erica Jolly ) whom I have met through this blog has helped me to learn about the great variety of poetry and relat...
Sunday, December 13, 2015

Visual poems with numbers

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     I have a good friend who does not care for the sorts of poetry that are written today.  When I asked what he likes he cited " When...
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...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Earth Day -- April 22, 2015

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Consider today the thoughtful words of this sonnet by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950):      Read history: so learn your place in Time...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

Time is no straight line . . .

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Swedish poet and Nobel Laureate Tomas Transtromer (1931-2015) died last month. At his website I found this poem that reflects on the arith...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

And Now I See . . .

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     One of the ways we overcome our nervous shyness about our disabilities is by talking about them, and writing about them.  And by encoun...
Friday, May 30, 2014

Squirrel Arithmetic

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     My maternal grandfather, James Edgar Black (1871-1931) was a western Pennsylvanian, a carpenter, and a man I never knew.  But Ed, one o...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Love mathematics!

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In the stanzas below, I have some fun with math terminology.  Hope you'll enjoy it too.        Love!         by JoAnne Growney      ...
Saturday, July 20, 2013

Poets at BRIDGES

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These seven poets will be reading math-related poems at the upcoming (July 27-31) BRIDGES Conference in Enschede, the Netherlands ; biograph...
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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Arithmetic of war

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     In his poem, "Arithmetic on the Frontier," Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) wrote of Britain's nineteenth century military a...
Monday, May 28, 2012

Remembering Israel Lewis Schneider

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     On Monday, October 17, 2011, Israel Lewis Schneider (1924-2011) --  Silver Spring poet and mechanical engineer -- passed away .  I di...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Echoes of childhood rhymes

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For those of us who live and breathe mathematics, there is much of it that affects us deeply.  Even those of us whose mathematics is mostly ...
Friday, October 1, 2010

Nursing--and other vital applications of counting

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     Although counting is one of the basic activities of mathematics, its importance also extends to the highest mathematical levels.  We co...
Monday, May 10, 2010

Margaret Cavendish (1623-73) -- The Circle of the Brain cannot be Squared

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Margaret Cavendish (1623-73) was a writer who published under her own name at a time when most women published anonymously.  Her writing ad...