Showing posts with label decimal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label decimal. Show all posts
Saturday, July 20, 2013

Poets at BRIDGES

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These seven poets will be reading math-related poems at the upcoming (July 27-31) BRIDGES Conference in Enschede, the Netherlands ; biograph...
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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Chatting about REAL numbers

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The term " real number " confuses many who are not immersed in mathematics.  For these, to whom 1, 2, 3 and the other counting ...
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Sunday, November 28, 2010

Poetry with base 10

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In his collection, Rational Numbers ( Truman State , 2000) Harvey Hix presents "Orders of Magnitude" -- a collection of 100 sta...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

From "Red Has No Reason" -- a poem about the nature of mathematics

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My new poetry book, Red Has No Reason , is now available (from Plain View Press or  amazon.com ).  Several of the poems mention math--and o...
Monday, May 17, 2010

Sense and Nonsense

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     Nonsense verse has a prominent place in the poetry that mathematicians enjoy. Perhaps this is so because mathematical discovery itself...
Monday, April 26, 2010

Poems starring mathematicians - 3

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Today's poems illustrate the satirical humor and rhyme that frequently inhabit poems by mathematicians. (Previous postings of poems abou...
Monday, April 19, 2010

Poems with Fibonacci number patterns

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In 21st century poetry, there are a variety of non-rhyming forms--and several of them have derived from the Fibonacci numbers. *  The Danis...
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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Queneau and the Oulipo

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Raymond Queneau was one of the leaders of a group of ten--primarily writers and mathematicians, primarily French--who founded a group, "...
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