Showing posts with label infinite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label infinite. Show all posts
Thursday, February 16, 2017

The Infinite

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     On page 53 of the February 6 issue of The New Yorker I recently found and enjoyed a poem entitled "The Infinite" by Charles S...
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Thursday, December 31, 2015

Precision leads to poetry . . .

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As the year ends, a quote from one of my once-favorite authors, Don DeLillo (in correspondence with David Foster Wallace -- whose Infinite ...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

Mathematics and Poetry ARE Similar

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        A recent email request sent me looking for a one-page article / quiz I had published in the American Mathematical Monthly in 1992 -...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Caught in an infinite loop . . ..

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Philadelphian Marion Cohen has been a mathematician since girlhood and a poet almost that long.  Besides her mathematics and writing, she t...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

Math fun with song lyrics

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Song-writer Bill Calhoun is a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics at Pennsylvania's Bloom...
Monday, June 22, 2015

Uncertainty . . .

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     Sometimes we find things of great value when we are looking for something else -- in fact, Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges has sai...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Imagine a Fractal

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California poet Carol Dorf is also a math teacher and is poetry editor of the online journal TalkingWriting .  In the most recent issue of...
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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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

A poem for your pocket

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Years ago, when "Poem in Your Pocket Day" (April 30) was first celebrated, we did not have cellphones to carry poems with us easil...
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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...
Sunday, March 29, 2015

Science Verse

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Recently coincidence has brought to me two collections of poems about  science -- first, the 2014 issue of The Nassau Review , a gift from e...
Sunday, March 22, 2015

March 21 -- World Poetry Day

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Yesterday poetry was celebrated around the world -- the Guardian reported the event with mention of Cafés around the world that offered a ...
Saturday, February 21, 2015

How many grains of sand?

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     Sand beaches are places I love to walk.  Next to oceans and soft underfoot.  Below I post a stanza from Richard Bready's " ...
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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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."...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Giving thanks for poems

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     As Thanksgiving approaches I am thankful not only for many blessings but also for the numbers I use to count them -- eight grandchildre...
Saturday, July 12, 2014

Prove It

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After observing that                1  =  1 and         1 + 3  =  4 and         1 + 3 + 5  =  9 and         1 + 3 + 5 + 7  =  16 and  ...
Sunday, May 25, 2014

How many grains of sand?

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Recently one of my friends used "all the grains of sand" as an example of an infinite set "because it is impossible to count ...
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Monday, April 21, 2014

A Cento from Arcadia

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Last week I had the enjoyable privilege of visiting with mathematician-poet Marion Cohen 's math-lit class, " Truth and Beauty &quo...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Extraneous -- and so on

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     Since my junior high math days, when I first heard the word "extraneous," I have loved the sound of it, the feel of my mouth ...
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