Showing posts with label imaginary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label imaginary. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Imaginary Numbers

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     Current politics has made me take more notice of several politicians' imaginary numbers -- far from fact and human needs.  And, aft...
Friday, November 14, 2014

Imaginary Number

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Last week (on November 6) I was invited to read some of my poems at the River Poets reading in Bloomsburg, PA ( where I lived and taught ...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Love mathematics!

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In the stanzas below, I have some fun with math terminology.  Hope you'll enjoy it too.        Love!         by JoAnne Growney      ...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

The magic of "i"

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  An exciting math event occurred last week -- the opening of MoMath ,  a Manhattan museum that makes math fun.   Still thinking about...
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Sunday, December 16, 2012

Imagine new numbers

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     As a child I wrote poems but abandoned the craft until many years later when I was a math professor; at that later time some of my poem...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Numbers from the Piano

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     Of all of the things we might try to say when we sit down to write a poem, which are the ones we should choose?  Sometimes we may say w...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Is mathematics discovered -- or invented?

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The issue of whether mathematics is invented or discovered is posed often.  Less frequently, queries as to where poetry falls in these cate...