Showing posts with label curve. Show all posts
Showing posts with label curve. Show all posts
Thursday, March 26, 2015

The problem of time

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Californian Brenda Hillman is a poet whose work I like and admire.  In "Time Problem" she weaves prime numbers into a deft descri...
Friday, January 30, 2015

Twined Arcs, Defying Euclid

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     The English language has adopted into current usage many terms from other languages.  French terms like coup de grace and haut monde ...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

Our curve is a parabola

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Found in the essay, " Intellect " (1841) --  these words by 19th century American philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

In Praise of Fractals

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     Philosopher Emily Grosholz is also a poet -- a poet who often writes of mathematics. Tessellations Publishing has recently (2014) pub...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

The Icosasphere

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Marianne Moore (1887-1972) has fun with the sounds of words -- including a number of math terms -- in her playful poem that celebrates inven...
Friday, June 17, 2011

Circling -- with Rilke

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Ranier Maria Rilke (1875-1926) was born in Prague but emigrated to Germany and is one of the great modern lyric poets.   The following Rilk...
Thursday, April 7, 2011

A poetic perspective on algebra

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     Last Monday (April 4), the Washington Post had an article concerning the value of Algebra II   as a predictor of college and work succ...
Tuesday, February 8, 2011

How much math does a math-poem need?

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Poems offered in this blog vary in the levels of mathematics they contain.  One mathematical reader commented privately that in some of the ...
Sunday, August 8, 2010

A poem of calculus (of ants on a worm)

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Philip Wexler  plays with the terminology of calculus in this poem:        The Calculus of Ants on a Worm      Swarming tiny      bodie...