Showing posts with label geometry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geometry. Show all posts
Monday, March 6, 2017

The Geometry of Wood

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    A recent email from Todd Sformo, a biologist living in Barrow, Alaska, alerted me to his prose poem " Knots " in the online pu...
Thursday, February 23, 2017

The Geometry of Poetry

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     Some poems lie around for A LONG TIME waiting for me to pick them up.  Or I pick them up and put them down in a special place and then ...
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Monday, October 24, 2016

Geometry -- in art and poetry

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     St. Louis poet Constance Levy is an acclaimed author of children's poetry -- I found her poem "Madinat as Salam" (includ...
Friday, April 15, 2016

From a math-friend and an Ohio poet

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     One of the wonderful things about writing a blog about my paired passions of poetry and mathematics is that the blog connects me with f...
Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Are we speaking of "mathematics" or "poetry"?

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     This week started with the excitement of an email message from Evelyn Lamb with a link to her Scientific American blog where she crea...
Thursday, October 8, 2015

Daughter and Father - a warm geometry . . .

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     Kate Stange is a mathematician -- from the Canadian province of Ontario and now at the University of Colorado -- whose father, Ken Sta...
Sunday, October 4, 2015

A mathematician's favorite poet

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     A summertime gift book that I have much enjoyed reading is Love & Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality by Edward Frenkel (Basic Book...
Sunday, May 3, 2015

Lines of breathless length

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Brief reflections on definitions of LINE . . .           Breathless length      by JoAnne Growney           A LINE, said Euclid, lies ev...
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Saturday, April 25, 2015

Geometry of baseball

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Many poems are written of baseball; a few of them involve mathematics --  see the posting for April 9, 2010 for math-related baseball poems...
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Remembering Abraham Lincoln

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Today -- April 14, 2015 -- marks the 150th birthday of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) and April 15 is the dat...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

Time is no straight line . . .

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Swedish poet and Nobel Laureate Tomas Transtromer (1931-2015) died last month. At his website I found this poem that reflects on the arith...
Thursday, January 8, 2015

The Geometry of Winter, with Eagles

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A poetry-listening opportunity in the Washington, DC area : Poet Martin Dickinson will read from his new collection, My Concept of Time ...
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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Saturday, December 13, 2014

Our curve is a parabola

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Found in the essay, " Intellect " (1841) --  these words by 19th century American philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-...
Sunday, November 30, 2014

Geometry of Love

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     A couple of weeks ago my "Google Alert" linked me to a posting of a science poem concerning "the geometry of love."...
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, May 29, 2014

Phenomenal Woman

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Yesterday morning Maya Angelou (1928-2014) left us. But she has not left us alone.  Her voice is with us, cheering us to be more than we wer...
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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...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

One geometry is not enough

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Writer Katharine Merow is in the Publications Department of the Washington DC headquarters of the MAA ( Mathematical Association of America...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

Angles in Alaska

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Last Thursday evening I was honored to read in Takoma Park's Third Thursday poetry series -- along with poets Judy Neri and Kathleen O&...