Showing posts with label computation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label computation. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Can you multiply with Roman numerals?

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     Canadian writer Siobhan Roberts (whom I know from BIRS workshops) has a recent New Yorker article that celebrates the 100th birthda...
Thursday, April 7, 2016

"The Computation"

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     Here is a favorite poem of mine -- and it available with many others in the anthology, Strange Attractors:  Poems of Love and Mathemati...
Monday, September 9, 2013

Nature poems -- at Stillwater

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     As noted in my 5 August posting , the Stillwater poetry festival (organized by Kevin Clark ) was scheduled for last Saturday, September...
Thursday, May 3, 2012

Pipher -- Math experiments, Pi

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     'Tis a favorite project of mine      A new value of pi to assign.           I would fix it at 3           For it's sim...
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...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Thinking about Thinking

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The question of what it means to think is never far from my focus -- and is particularly on my mind during these days that the computer Wats...
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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...
Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Mathematics, like poetry, is ART

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Doing mathematics is often misunderstood as primarily computation--an error that seems equivalent to seeing poetry writing as primarily a sp...