Showing posts with label fractal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fractal. 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...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Similar, self-similar -- fractals, a poem

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      In geometry two objects are said to be similar if they have the same shape --- which happens if their angles are the same size and oc...
Sunday, December 28, 2014

A Fractal Poem

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    A fractal is an object that displays self-similarity -- roughly, this means that the parts have the same shape as the whole -- as in th...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Fractals -- poems and photos

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     Marc Frantz and Annalisa Crannell have written about mathematics and art ( Viewpoints:  Mathematical Perspectives and Fractal Geometr...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

In Praise of Fractals

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     Philosopher Emily Grosholz is also a poet -- a poet who often writes of mathematics. Tessellations Publishing has recently (2014) pub...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Fractal Geometry

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Lee Felice Pinkas is one of the founding editors of cellpoems -- a poetry journal distributed via text message.  I found her poem,"Th...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

From order to chaos -- a sonnet

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Fractals    by Diana Der-Hovanessian                               Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare                                ...
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Monday, November 22, 2010

Butterfly Effects

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An equation or system of equations is said to be "ill-conditioned" if a small change in input data can produce a very large change...
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Sunday, October 17, 2010

The Length of a Coastline

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In the nineties, fifteen or so years ago, when I began posting mathematical poems on the Internet, two of my earliest connections were Ken S...
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Friday, May 14, 2010

Poems starring mathematicians - 6 (Mandelbrot)

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More familiar than the name Benoit Mandelbrot are images, like the one to the left, of the fractal that bears his name .  Born in Poland ...
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