Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
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, June 2, 2015

17 syllables -- and other art

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What is he talking about?  What does he mean? The thought-provoking riddle posed by these 17 syllables (presented here as 3 square stanzas)...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Long division is difficult . . .

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Last Monday included a visit with old friends of whom I see too little, Silver Spring artist Mark Behme -- with whom I did some art-poetry ...
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Sieve of Eratosthenes

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The Sieve of Eratosthenes      by Robin Chapman He was an ancient Greek looking for primes, those whole numbers divisible only by 1 a...
Saturday, September 15, 2012

A poem for a math-friend

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     On July 14, 2012, my good friend, Toni Carroll , passed on. I first knew Toni in the 1980s as a colleague in the department of mathemat...
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...
Friday, January 14, 2011

Rather like an elephant

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What is mathematics?            These days I am  outside of mathematics looking in and my views of the subject are more complex than during...
Sunday, October 3, 2010

Art, poetry, and mathematics -- and Rafael Alberti

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On September 23 I was privileged to hear Annalisa Crannell , mathematics professor at Lancaster's Franklin and Marshall College, speak o...
Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Poetry-and-Math -- Interdisciplinary Courses

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     On July 1 my posting considered math-poetry anthologies and began with a reference to Against Infinity , the discovery of which was a ...