Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics

Mathematical language can heighten the imagery of a poem; mathematical structure can deepen its effect. Feast on an international menu of poems made rich by mathematical ingredients -- and gathered here by JoAnne Growney, whose personal website is at https://joannegrowney.com/ .

Showing posts with label equations. Show all posts

Showing posts with label equations. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Solving equations . . .

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

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Algebra cadabra

It was my good fortune to meet Colette Inez back in the early 1990s when she was poet-in-residence at Bucknell University. Then, as now, I ...

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Latitude, longitude, and inauguration

Elizabeth Bodien now lives in a rural area in eastern Pennsylvania -- settling there after other lives in California, in Japan, in West Afr...

Monday, March 5, 2012

Poetic Explorations of . . . Mathematicians

In the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics ( Volume 1, Issue 2 ), we find "Numen R ology: A Poetic Exploration of the Lives and Work of ...

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Things the fingers know

Blogger Peter Cameron sent me a link to an lively article, " Eveline Pye: Poetry in Numbers " in the September 2011 issue of the...

Monday, July 11, 2011

Seeking a universal language

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

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