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
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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):
Labels:
curvature,
decimal,
Euclid,
fractions,
Gauss,
H. L. Hix,
mathematics,
numbers,
orders of magnitude,
poetry,
rational,
Strange Attractors,
Truman State
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