Showing posts with label distance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label distance. Show all posts
Monday, June 13, 2016

When parallel lines meet, that is LOVE

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Bernadette Turner teaches mathematics at Lincoln University in Missouri. And, via a long-ago email (lost for a while, and then found) she h...
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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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Giving thanks for poems

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     As Thanksgiving approaches I am thankful not only for many blessings but also for the numbers I use to count them -- eight grandchildre...
Sunday, June 2, 2013

Geometry of distance

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     Some of the poems herein arrive as gifts from friends.  Today's poem came via e-mail from Susan (a Californian whom I have gotten t...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

The view from here -- or there

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From Nashville math teacher and blogger, Tad Wert , I learned of this poem, "Geometry, Lost Cove" by his Harpeth Hall School colle...
Friday, March 2, 2012

Seeing Distance -- geometry in photography

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One of my favorite poem-stanza styles is a syllable-square -- it distributes the weights of the words in a way that pleases me. The poem bel...
Sunday, October 17, 2010

The Length of a Coastline

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In the nineties, fifteen or so years ago, when I began posting mathematical poems on the Internet, two of my earliest connections were Ken S...
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