Showing posts with label finite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label finite. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Imagine a Fractal

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California poet Carol Dorf is also a math teacher and is poetry editor of the online journal TalkingWriting .  In the most recent issue of...
Saturday, February 21, 2015

How many grains of sand?

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     Sand beaches are places I love to walk.  Next to oceans and soft underfoot.  Below I post a stanza from Richard Bready's " ...
Monday, November 11, 2013

The minute in infinity

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From   Treatise on Infinite Series       by Jacob Bernoulli Even as the finite encloses an infinite series       And in the unlimited li...
Monday, April 22, 2013

Earth Day, 2013

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     OUR earth is finite.       Its resources are      finite. No clever      transformation can      convert the      finite to      infin...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Counting grains of sand

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Recently I have found online translations of several poems by Norwegian poet Rolf Jacobsen (1907-1994) .  His poem "Sand" reminded...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Like poetry, mathematics is beautiful

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     Congratulations to Justin Southey who is completing his doctoral studies in mathematics at the University of Johannesburg under the dir...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Remembering Pi-day, a day late

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Yesterday (3-14) was Pi-day, but my recent thoughts have been focused on my math-teacher son Eric (who has acute pancreatitis) and his famil...
Thursday, November 11, 2010

Theorem-proof / Cut-up / poems

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     For mathematicians, reading a well-crafted proof that turns toward its conclusion with elegance and perhaps surprise -- this mirrors a...
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Ghosts of Departed Quantities

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     Years ago in calculus class I excitedly learned that an infinite number of terms may have a finite sum.  Manipulation of infinities see...