Showing posts with label equation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label equation. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Seeking an EQUATION for LOVE . . .

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       One of the interesting and fun people I had the good fortune to meet at the 2017 Bridges Math-Arts Conference in Waterloo, Ontario, ...
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Thursday, July 21, 2016

One thing leads to another -- "Do the Math"

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     I offer poetry workshops for Peer Wellness and Recovery Services -- and PWRS coordinator Miriam Yarmolinsky invited me to go with her ...
Monday, April 25, 2016

"The Mathematician"

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     Here is a selection from "The Mathematician," a long poem -- found in its entirety in The Rumpus -- by  Oregon poet Carl Ada...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

A poem is an equation?

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     Exiled Romanian poet Nina Cassian (1924-2014) spoke with a daring and imaginative voice that I have much admired.  And she occasionall...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Rabbis should learn to solve quadratics

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     Thanks to mathemagician Colm Mulcahy who connected me with poet Lisa Dordal -- and thanks to her for permission to offer these lines,...
Monday, January 25, 2016

Tartaglia solving the cubic -- in verse

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     Mathematical historians now credit both Cardano and Tartaglia with the formula to solve cubic equations, referring to it as the "...
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Monday, September 21, 2015

Choosing what words mean . . .

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     Nineteenth century writer and mathematician Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) gave his character, Humpty Dumpty, these words :  "When I u...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Terror/Mathematics

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Several friends have sent me links to the poem " Terror/Mathematics " by Zeina Hashem Beck -- written after the beheading of 21 Ch...
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Found poetry - words of Dirac

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The epigraph for Richard Bready's " Times of Sand " (a stanza of which I posted a few days ago on 21 February ) is a quote fro...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

Each equation is a playful catch . . .

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A mathematician is probably too close to her subject matter to speak playfully about it -- and thus she, even more than others, appreciates...
Friday, July 25, 2014

Poems with "equation" in the title

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     One of the ways to explore this blog is to go to the right hand column and find the instruction, SEARCH .      A few moments ago I did...
Friday, June 27, 2014

Of all geometries, feathery is best . . .

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The title for this post comes from Twinzilla ( The Word Works , 2014), by Charleston poet Barbara Hagerty .  The title character of this co...
Friday, May 16, 2014

Pound on poetry and mathematics

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HERE at PoetryFoundation.org we find an article by Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), published in POETRY Magazine in 1916, in which Sandburg of...
Monday, April 7, 2014

April Celebrates Poetry and Mathematics

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On April 1 (the first day of National Poetry Month and Mathematics Awareness Month ) Science writer Stephen Ornes offered a guest post at...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Word problems

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       Scarcity:  Why Having Too Little Means So Much (a Times book by S. Mullainathan and E. Shafir, released last September) considers n...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

A poet (math-daughter) speaks of math's beauty

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I met Minnesota poet Roseann Lloyd when we served together on an AWP (Associated Writing Programs) conference panel on translation several ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Balancing an Equation

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     I grew up on a farm and spent my middle life in a small town and now live in a city.  A sort of immigrant.  A farm girl who became a p...
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 ...
Friday, December 28, 2012

Explorers

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Those who know mathematics but do not immerse in it daily often use its terms in contexts that surprise and delight.  I smiled with apprecia...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

SHE can solve any equation!

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Today's New York Times offers a tribute to Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus , a professor emerita of physics and engineering at MIT.  The T...