Showing posts with label count. Show all posts
Showing posts with label count. Show all posts
Monday, June 6, 2016

A poem, a contradiction . . .

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     One stra tegy for proving a mathemat ical theorem is a " proof by contradiction ."  In such a proof one begins by supposing t...
Friday, May 6, 2016

Poems that count: Eight Buffalo

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     In mid-April at the Split This Rock Poetry Festival, one of the sessions I attended and valued had the title " "Eco-Feminis...
Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Counting those who grieve . . .

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Each day's email brings me a Poem-a-Day from Poets.org and today's selection by Matthew Olzmann considers the tragedies from gun-...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Let us not forget . . .

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At this time of year in the Northern Hemisphere, many are without shelter -- and are cold.  Let us think of them  -- as Cecil Day-Lewis (190...
Monday, July 6, 2015

Counting Years -- in p'Bitek's Song of Lawino

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Okot p'Bitek (1931-1982) was a Ugandan poet; one of his central concerns was that African literature should be built on African rather ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Folk music -- counting syllables

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Learn about and support Women in Mathematics .   One place to do that is here .  Using 4x4 and 2x2 syllable-squares, I emphasize the ...
Saturday, January 10, 2015

Opposites, Balance

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     Recently, and perhaps always, opposites have interested me.  For example, the complementary and sometimes  conflicting nuggets of advic...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Be someone TO COUNT ON in 2015

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By any means of counting,  the number of incarcerated persons in the United States  is TOO LARGE and the proportion of prisoners wi...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Counting into the Future . . .

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     Remember that you have only until November 1 to submit a winning "poem of provocation and witness" to the Split This Rock Poe...
Saturday, August 23, 2014

Changing colors, counting syllables

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Changing Colors by JoAnne Growney Blue yoyo -- awkwardly stopping-starting, rising-plummeting, seeking self-control. Ple...
Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Behind the cards -- mathematics

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A couple of weeks ago at an MAA math lecture by Alissa Crans on the Catalan numbers , I sat near card-trick mathematician Colm Mulcahy .  ...
Friday, May 30, 2014

Squirrel Arithmetic

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     My maternal grandfather, James Edgar Black (1871-1931) was a western Pennsylvanian, a carpenter, and a man I never knew.  But Ed, one o...
Sunday, May 25, 2014

How many grains of sand?

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Recently one of my friends used "all the grains of sand" as an example of an infinite set "because it is impossible to count ...
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Friday, April 25, 2014

Too many selves

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In my childhood home, numbers were used with care and precision.  There would be teasing when I would use the adverb "too" --- as ...
Monday, April 21, 2014

A Cento from Arcadia

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Last week I had the enjoyable privilege of visiting with mathematician-poet Marion Cohen 's math-lit class, " Truth and Beauty &quo...
Monday, February 10, 2014

To love, in perfect syllables

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     While looking for Valentine verse with a math connection, I opened my copy of The Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carroll (Chancel...
Saturday, November 30, 2013

Last year's prediction

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This poem by Halifax mathematician and poet, Robert Dawson , appeared in LabLit   in December 2012 (just in time to offer gentle mocking of...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Emily Dickinson

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     Although I do not consider any of Emily Dickinson's poems "mathematical," I find that she does not shy from using the te...
Thursday, June 13, 2013

Count your things

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     In the development of human culture, mathematics began with counting.  And so it also begins with each child as she/he grows.      Som...
Friday, April 19, 2013

A poem for your pocket

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April is National Poetry Month. April is National Mathematics Awareness Month. Today, April 19, is Poem-in-Your-Pocket Day. Here is a...