Showing posts with label chaos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chaos. Show all posts
Friday, October 14, 2016

From order to chaos -- "Fig Tree Rag"

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     Robert Dawson , a mathematician and poet from Halifax, Nova Scotia, is wide-ranging in the mathematics that he includes in poetry.  He...
Thursday, March 3, 2016

Arnold diffusion (and poets of Romania)

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     I have had the good fortune to attend two BIRS Math / Creative Writing workshops in Banff (most recently in January 2016) and one of t...
Monday, June 30, 2014

A recent butterfly effect

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The term butterfly effect has entered everyday vocabulary from the mathematics of chaos theory and refers to the possibility of a major eve...
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, October 29, 2013

From order to chaos -- a sonnet

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Fractals    by Diana Der-Hovanessian                               Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare                                ...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Shifting patterns

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This poem by California poet and scientist Lucille Lang Day weaves a shifting display of images -- the flight patterns of birds made vivid ...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Chaos and Order -- Stevens

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An article by Jeff Gordinier, " For Wallace Stevens, Hartford as Muse ," in the Travel Section of last Sunday's NY Times give...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Chaos Over the Hors d'Oeuvres

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Some systems of equations can produce vast changes in output with only small changes in input.  Or not.  This sensitivitiy to initial condit...
Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Mathematicians at work

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     About her collecton, The Scottish Café ( Slapering Hol Press , 2002), Susan Case offers this note:      This series of poems is loose...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Poetry inspired by Chaos

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Poet Robin Chapman studies the language learning of children -- and has collaborated with physics professor Julien Sprott on a lovely and f...
Monday, November 22, 2010

Butterfly Effects

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An equation or system of equations is said to be "ill-conditioned" if a small change in input data can produce a very large change...
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Friday, June 18, 2010

Three poems with the word "axiom"

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