Showing posts with label cube. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cube. Show all posts
Monday, January 16, 2023

A Lecture on the Cube

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     Summer weeks spent teaching English to Romanian students have helped me to learn of several of the country's fine poets and to get ...
Saturday, February 28, 2015

Reflections on Logic

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Miroslav Holub (1923-1998), Czech poet and immunologist who excelled in both endeavors, is one of my favorite poets.  He combines scientifi...
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...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Dimensions of a soul

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In the poem below, Young Smith uses carefully precise terms of Euclidean geometry to create a vivid interior portrait.      She Considers...
Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Can you SEE the monument?

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Links to non-intersecting celebrations of April as National Poetry Month      and      Mathematics Awareness Month are available here ...
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...
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Conversational mathematics

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In recent weeks I have been experimenting with poems that use mathematical terminology, wondering whether -- since there are readers who are...
Monday, November 12, 2012

Finding fault with a sphere . . .

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     On November 9 I had the pleasure (hosted by Irina Mitrea and Maria Lorenz ) of talking (" Thirteen Ways that Math and Poetry Conn...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Poems of set paradox and spatial dimension

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Universal Paradox      by Sandra DeLozier Coleman      One gigantic set made of all that there is      Boggles the mind with paradoxes. ...
Thursday, July 22, 2010

Mathematics in poetry by Nichita Stanescu

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     Though formerly a math professor, my recent teaching has involved poetry--and I have been fortunate to spend several summer months at S...
Monday, May 10, 2010

Margaret Cavendish (1623-73) -- The Circle of the Brain cannot be Squared

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Margaret Cavendish (1623-73) was a writer who published under her own name at a time when most women published anonymously.  Her writing ad...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Howard Nemerov's mathematical imagery

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GETTING IT RIGHT IN LANGUAGE -- Poets and mathematicians alike are concerned with precise statement. Two-time US Poet Laureate Howard Nemero...
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