Poet Joan Mazza celebrates qualities mathematical:
To a Mathematician Lover by Joan Mazza
As we embark on this plane
of earthly love, I should explain,
my experiences with men
have doubled my troubles
and halved my pleasures,
divided my time into fractions
Showing posts with label fractions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fractions. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Poetry with base 10
In his collection, Rational Numbers (Truman State, 2000) Harvey Hix presents "Orders of Magnitude" -- a collection of 100 stanzas in which each stanza has ten lines and each line has ten syllables. Beyond this numeric structure is frequent use of mathematical imagery; here are samples (stanzas 42 and 100):
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
