Showing posts with label hypotenuse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hypotenuse. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 12, 2016

A sonnet for W.R.Hamilton

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      Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) was also a poet (see, for example, this sonnet in a prior posting (13 October...
Friday, October 18, 2013

Mathematics of love . . .

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"Mathematics of Love" is the title poem of a collection by John Edwin Cohen (1941-2012), published in 2011 by Anaphora Literary P...
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Kaplansky sings Kaplansky (and Pi)

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     I first knew of mathematician Irving Kaplansky (1917-2006) through his monograph, Infinite Abelian Groups -- it was one of my texts f...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Related rates -- in fiction and poetry

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     During the Memorial Day weekend I had the opportunity to read Black Rice (WSI, 2013), a novella by Burmese-American poet, artist, acti...
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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Seeking math-poets -- JMM, SanDiego 1-11-13

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Call for Readers:      The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics will host a reading of poetry-with-mathematics at the annual Joint Mathematic...
Monday, August 6, 2012

Spanish favorites

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One of my favorite DC-area poet-people is Yvette Neisser Moreno -- who, besides giving us her own work, is active in translation of  Spanis...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

The hypotenuse of an isosceles triangle

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Detroit poet, Philip Levine , has been selected as the new Poet Laureate of the United States. Selected by the librarian of Congress (Jame...
Sunday, September 12, 2010

Word Play with the Hypotenuse

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Here we have a playful treatment of the language of the Pythagorean Theorem in "Talking Big" by John Bricuth .