Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics

Mathematical language can heighten the imagery of a poem; mathematical structure can deepen its effect. Feast on an international menu of poems made rich by mathematical ingredients -- and gathered here by JoAnne Growney, whose personal website is at https://joannegrowney.com/ .

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Showing posts with label hexagon. Show all posts

Friday, December 28, 2012

Explorers

Those who know mathematics but do not immerse in it daily often use its terms in contexts that surprise and delight. I smiled with apprecia...

Friday, July 15, 2011

I have dreamed geometry

Descartes by Jorge Luis Borges I am the only man on earth, but perhaps there is neither earth nor man. Perhaps a god is ...

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Mathematicians divide

One of my fine graduate courses at Hunter College was a "World Poetry" course taught by William Pitt Root . One of our texts was ...

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Numbers are more than numbers

Today, a poem in three parts, "Trouble with Numbers" -- from the collection Mathematics and Other Poems by William Wall .

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Geometry and autism

We do not easily describe what goes on inside our own heads and have still greater difficulty seeing into the minds of others. Pennsylvania...

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