Showing posts with label calculation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label calculation. Show all posts
Thursday, December 25, 2014

A thousand Christmas trees

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My email poem-a-day today from www.poets.org is " Christmas Trees " by Robert Frost (1874-1963) ; this 1916 poem includes some c...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Writing mathy poems - a student activity

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On the web-page of mathematician-poet Sarah Glaz I found a link to this file of math-related poems that she prompted students to write whe...
Saturday, December 14, 2013

Amounting to Something

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From the Fall/Winter 2013 issue of Poet Lore , a poem by David Wagoner about the arithmetic of expectations:      Amounting to Something ...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Averaging . . . geometry of the center

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Perhaps partly due to his experience as an Air Force pilot during World War II,  Harold Nemerov (1920 - 1991) uses geometry with deft precis...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Related rates -- in fiction and poetry

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     During the Memorial Day weekend I had the opportunity to read Black Rice (WSI, 2013), a novella by Burmese-American poet, artist, acti...
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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Natural numbers

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     My just-previous posting tells of a Monday poetry reading I was able to attend.  On Monday, May 14, a poetry reading took place that ...
Monday, December 26, 2011

A mathematical woman

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As in an earlier posting ( 20 December 2011 ), today's feature includes verse by Lord Byron (1788-1824). This time the source is Byron&...
Sunday, November 27, 2011

How much for a digit of PI?

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Scottish poet Brian McCabe writes playfully of numbers.  In the following poem he imagines an auction of the digits of   π .    Three Poi...
Friday, April 29, 2011

Forgetful Number

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A lovely poem about more than a number . . .     Forgetful Number   by Vasko Popa     Once upon a time there was a number     Pure and ...
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...
Monday, September 6, 2010

More of Pi in Poetry

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Recording artist Kate Bush has written a song entitled “Pi” which includes some of π's digits in the lyrics . Likewise, Polish Nobelist ...
Monday, April 19, 2010

Poems with Fibonacci number patterns

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In 21st century poetry, there are a variety of non-rhyming forms--and several of them have derived from the Fibonacci numbers. *  The Danis...
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