Showing posts with label calculus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label calculus. Show all posts
Sunday, July 31, 2016

Loving the difference quotient ... and more ...

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     From Philadelphia poet-mathematician, Marion Cohen , a new collection  -- Closer to Dying (Word Tech, 2016).  When I received the book...
Friday, August 14, 2015

Primes and a paradox

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       Canadian poet Alice Major has loved and admired science and mathematics since girlhood and this background brings to her mathy poems...
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Saturday, February 21, 2015

How many grains of sand?

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     Sand beaches are places I love to walk.  Next to oceans and soft underfoot.  Below I post a stanza from Richard Bready's " ...
Tuesday, January 6, 2015

from MIT Science-Poetry -- The Cal-Dif-Fluk Saga

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     Recently I have enjoyed browsing a voluminous online 19th century Science-Poetry collection ( Watchers of the Moon ) hosted by MIT, gat...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Found: Elementary Calculus

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Here is a poem by Saskatchewan poet Karen Solie .        Found     by Karen Solie        Elementary Calculus                 From    ...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Graffiti Calculus

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     In my dreams I am an artist -- a cartoonist, perhaps, or a graffiti artist -- so skilled with lines and curves and so clever that my ar...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Love mathematics!

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In the stanzas below, I have some fun with math terminology.  Hope you'll enjoy it too.        Love!         by JoAnne Growney      ...
Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Calculus (and calyculus)

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For lots of years I have subscribed to A.Word.A.Day , founded by Anu Garg , and on 3 June 2013  -- offered in the category of "words th...
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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Saturday, February 9, 2013

Limericks and a Cardioid -- for Valentine's Day

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      Oh, math-lover most divine,      for you this mathy Valentine --           found when I looked           in a calculus book -- ...
Friday, August 10, 2012

Summing thin slices

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This poem by recent (2008-2010) poet laureate Kay Ryan at first made me think of calculus, of integration, summing all the thin slices to f...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

For Hazlett -- an Exquisite Corpse poem

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At the recent  BRIDGES Math-Art Conference at Towson University, I led a Sunday afternoon Poetry-with-Mathematics Workshop .  One of our wr...
Sunday, June 24, 2012

Remembering Sophia Kovalevsky

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With Reason: A Portrait       by JoAnne Growney   (June 2012 )         Sophia Kovalevsky *    (1850-1891 ) Because she was Russian  . ...
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Monday, June 18, 2012

Sophie Germain dressed as a man to study math

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One of the fine sources for biographies and other topics in the history of mathematics is MacTutor History of Mathematics archive , hosted...
Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Sum of moments

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Here is a 3x3 square poem -- inspired by a recently-found margin-note I made in Differential and Integral Calculus (by Ross R Middlemiss )...
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Is Math for Women?

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At a River Poets reading at the public library in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania on December 1, 2011, Carol Ann Heckman surprised me with her poe...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Lieber's INFINITY -- poetic prose

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It has surprised me to discover that some of my best-remembered learning took place at the hands of teachers I did not particularly like.  O...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Teaching Numbers

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Californian Gary Soto   writes for both children and adults and much of his work suits both groups.  Here from A Fire in My Hands (Houghton...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Ghosts of Departed Quantities

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     Years ago in calculus class I excitedly learned that an infinite number of terms may have a finite sum.  Manipulation of infinities see...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Excitement in mathematics classrooms

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Poems from three women illustrate a range of emotional content in the mathematics classroom:  Rita Dove's "Geometry" captures ...
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