Showing posts with label divide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label divide. Show all posts
Thursday, October 8, 2015

Toward Infinity . . .

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     During summer teaching opportunities a dozen or more years ago in Deva, Romania I met Doru Radu who taught English there -- and our mut...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Visual-mathematical poetry

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      The poems that I write and most of the poems that I include in this blog use mathematical patterns to structure their lines and stanza...
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Saturday, December 14, 2013

Amounting to Something

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From the Fall/Winter 2013 issue of Poet Lore , a poem by David Wagoner about the arithmetic of expectations:      Amounting to Something ...
Saturday, April 27, 2013

Zero Power

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To neutralize the differing effects of any non-zero numbers -- to wipe out vast differences between numbers -- we may raise each of them to ...
Saturday, July 2, 2011

Mathematicians divide

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One of my fine graduate courses at Hunter College was a "World Poetry" course taught by William Pitt Root .  One of our texts was ...
Friday, April 29, 2011

Forgetful Number

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A lovely poem about more than a number . . .     Forgetful Number   by Vasko Popa     Once upon a time there was a number     Pure and ...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Dividing by Zero

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Fairy godmothers have their magic wands and mathematician have division by zero as a way to make the impossible happen -- for example, we ca...
Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Troubles with math, expressed poetically

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     Should I admit that I sometimes feel a bit of resentment toward people who are insistently articulate about their difficulties with mat...
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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...