Since April is Mathematics Awareness Month -- with theme "Unraveling Complex Systems" -- this blogger has been seeking out poems that embrace "complexity." Today we have a selection by British poet, novelist, and critic John Fuller from his Newdigate prize-winning poem of 1960, "A Dialogue between Caliban and Ariel.".
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Sunday, April 17, 2011
Sunday, April 3, 2011
April -- month of poetry and mathematics
April is both National Poetry Month and Mathematics Awareness Month (with theme this year being "Unraveling Complex Systems"). Today's poem by physicist Richard Feynmann (1918-1988) celebrates both poetry and complexity; from the Epilogue of Feynman's book, What do you care what other people think?, we have these lines:
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Art, poetry, and mathematics -- and Rafael Alberti
On September 23 I was privileged to hear Annalisa Crannell, mathematics professor at Lancaster's Franklin and Marshall College, speak on "Math and Art: the Good, the Bad, and the Pretty." This informative presentation, sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and pitched toward undergraduates, showed ways that artists use mathematics.
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