Celebrating math-women with poetry is a project to
which I devoted several postings earlier this summer -- see, for
example, these June and July
entries. Moreover, I am looking for more such poems to post. Please
contact me (e-mail address is at the bottom of this blog-site) with poems about math-women that you have written or found.
Mathematician-astronomer Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) appeared in a poem by Siv Cedering on 21 July, 2012 and here she is again, this time celebrated by Adrienne Rich (1929-2012).
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Monday, September 3, 2012
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Hamilton -- mathematician, poet, Irishman
October 15-22 is Maths Week in Ireland -- as I learned from this article in the Irish Times celebrating maths and the Irish mathematician Willam Rowan Hamilton (1805 - 1865). Turns out that Hamilton's quaternions are useful in design of video games and 3D effects in the cinema.
Hamilton -- a mathematician, astronomer, and physicist -- was also a poet; a contemporary and friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. His poems do not speak of mathematics -- but here is a sonnet he wrote to honor Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768 – 1830), a prominent French mathematician and physicist.
Hamilton -- a mathematician, astronomer, and physicist -- was also a poet; a contemporary and friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. His poems do not speak of mathematics -- but here is a sonnet he wrote to honor Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768 – 1830), a prominent French mathematician and physicist.
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William Rowan Hamilton
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