Showing posts with label digits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label digits. Show all posts
Monday, December 23, 2013

Ah, you are a mathematician

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Thanks to Arturo Sangalli of the Writer's Union of Canada -- and fellow-participant in a recent Banff creativity conference --  who re...
Monday, August 5, 2013

Poetry on Back Roads -- Stillwater Festival

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     On Saturday, September 7, a poetry festival will happen in Stillwater, PA (a small town not far from Bloomsburg where I lived and profe...
Monday, July 11, 2011

Seeking a universal language

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Is mathematics a universal language?  Not only is this universality often postulated but also it was said  -- some decades back -- that devi...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

Counting: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, . . .

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At Peter Cameron's Blog, " Counting the things that need to be counted ," the July 14, 2010 entry contains a reflective poem...
Friday, February 18, 2011

Srinivasa Ramanujan

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One of the most intriguing tales in the modern history of mathematics involves Indian-born mathematician and genius Srinivasa Ramanujan (18...
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Monday, September 6, 2010

More of Pi in Poetry

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Recording artist Kate Bush has written a song entitled “Pi” which includes some of π's digits in the lyrics . Likewise, Polish Nobelist ...
Thursday, September 2, 2010

Rhymes help to remember the digits of Pi

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Calculated at the website,  WolframAlpha , here are the first fifty-nine digits of the irrational number π (ratio of a circle's circumfe...
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