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/ .

Showing posts with label axiom. Show all posts

Showing posts with label axiom. Show all posts

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Axiom: A Mathematics of Poetry

Today in a Facebook posting by Susanne Pumpluen I learned of Discov-her , an online journal featuring stories about women in Scienc...

Saturday, December 20, 2014

The Girl Who Loved Triangles

I found this poem by Michigan poet Jackie Bartley when I was browsing old issues of albatross (edited by Richard Smyth ) and she has...

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

What is mathematics to animals?

In a playfully serious volume of verses by Eugene Ostashevsky we meet his alter ego, the "new philosopher" DJ Spinoza. With the...

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Thoughts Suggested by a College Examination

Just when I was convinced that mathematical subject matter appears proportionately more in modern than in classical poetry, I turned again t...

Friday, October 15, 2010

Voices in a Geometry Classroom

I have been invited to return next week ( October 20 at 7 PM ) to Bloomsburg University, where I taught mathematics for lots of years, for a...

Friday, June 18, 2010

Three poems with the word "axiom"

Poems that contain "number" are numerous; those with "axiom" are less easily found. Here are 3 of them -- by 19th cent...

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