Showing posts with label equal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label equal. Show all posts
Monday, January 23, 2017

All Mathematicians are Equal!

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     Last Saturday's Women's March in Washington was one the great events of my lifetime -- the feeling of community that bonded us ...
Saturday, July 25, 2015

Math and Poetry and Climate

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Canadian poet Madhur Anand is also an Environmental Scientist; her love of nature and concerns for preserving a habitable climate pervade h...
Friday, February 13, 2015

America, land of equals (perhaps)

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Preparing to celebrate (after Valentine's Day ) Presidents' Day , remembering particularly George Washington (b February 22, 1732) a...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Solving equations . . .

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Although poets as long ago as Henry Lok (1553?-1608?), Elizabeth Tollett (1694-1854), and William Blake   (1757-1827) used mathematical ...
Sunday, November 25, 2012

Lincoln and Euclid -- common notions

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     This afternoon I enjoyed the recently-released film , Lincoln -- appreciating Sally Fields as Mary Todd, Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus ...
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Sunday, August 19, 2012

Worth of a horse

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When my friend Kay and I visited the National Museum of the American Indian Museum in Washington last Wednesday, August 15, we particularl...
Friday, November 18, 2011

Equivalence

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In telling the time, we commonly refer to hours that differ by a multiple of 12 using the same number. Sixty hours after 3 o'clock it is...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

A whole and its parts

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     Aristotle may have been the first to assert that a whole is more than the sum of its parts .  Mathematics textbooks are likely to say ...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Geometry and autism

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We do not easily describe what goes on inside our own heads and have still greater difficulty seeing into the minds of others.  Pennsylvania...
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Monday, August 30, 2010

What is the point? -- consider Euclid

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A two-line poem by Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda (1904-73), found in my bilingual edition of Extravagaria , reminded me of the poetic nature ...