Here is a selection from "The Mathematician," a long poem -- found in its entirety in The Rumpus -- by Oregon poet Carl Adamshick and recommended to me by poet R Joyce Heon -- for a sample of her ekphrastic poems, follow this link and go to pages 37-42. And this link leads to more poems (in this blog) starring mathematicians --- and a few of them are women!!
from The Mathematician by Carl Adamshick
What I do is calculate.
I’ve always seen the world as numbers,
buildings and trees factors,
math as a language better suited for explaining
how things work
than the formula of grammar.
Showing posts with label calculate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label calculate. Show all posts
Monday, April 25, 2016
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Women's History -- celebrate Caroline Herschel
In the sixties when I spent a year at Bucknell University, I was a member of the "Department of Astronomy and Mathematics," a pairing of related disciplines. In past centuries, Mathematics was included in the liberal arts. In the twenty-first century often it is paired with Computer Science, and Astronomy is paired with Physics. And so it goes.
Poems by Laura Long tell of the pioneering work by astronomer Caroline Herschel -- a discoverer of eight comets, a cataloger of stars. Long describes her recent collection, The Eye of Caroline Herschel: A Life in Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2013), in this way:
This is a work of the imagination steeped in historical siftings
and the breath between the lines.
Here is the opening poem:
Poems by Laura Long tell of the pioneering work by astronomer Caroline Herschel -- a discoverer of eight comets, a cataloger of stars. Long describes her recent collection, The Eye of Caroline Herschel: A Life in Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2013), in this way:
This is a work of the imagination steeped in historical siftings
and the breath between the lines.
Here is the opening poem:
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Word problems
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (a Times book by S. Mullainathan and E. Shafir, released last September) considers not only the facts but the feelings of scarcity and finds similarities between those those with too little time and those with too little money. The authors report, further, that persons experiencing scarcity do not have the luxury of doing well in their studies -- of mathematics or poetry -- because the scarcity demands their first attention.
And . . . this connection between external environment and a student's learning brings me to a poem by Dian Sousa, a poem that gives us some things to think about.
And . . . this connection between external environment and a student's learning brings me to a poem by Dian Sousa, a poem that gives us some things to think about.
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