Showing posts with label infinity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label infinity. Show all posts
Sunday, October 15, 2023

An infinite design -- in a poem

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Like a circle, the "lazy 8" or infinity symbol -- shown below --never ends. Recently it was a delight to me to find -- here in the...
Monday, November 21, 2016

An immeasurable continuum

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This poem by Emily Warn (a founder of PoetryFoundation.org ) uses mathematical terminology to introduce us to the immeasurable horror of de...
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Thursday, October 8, 2015

Toward Infinity . . .

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     During summer teaching opportunities a dozen or more years ago in Deva, Romania I met Doru Radu who taught English there -- and our mut...
Friday, September 11, 2015

Songs of mathematics . . .

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     Larry Lesser is a songwriter who uses lyrics for teaching as well as entertainment.  A varied sample of his creations for doing this a...
Friday, January 30, 2015

Twined Arcs, Defying Euclid

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     The English language has adopted into current usage many terms from other languages.  French terms like coup de grace and haut monde ...
Friday, August 15, 2014

My best dream is floating . . .

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     Today I want to urge you to visit several sites in addition to my blog.  For example, there is the recent announcement of 2014 Fields M...
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Sunday, March 23, 2014

Homage to Euclid

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In my preceding post ( 20 March 2014 ) Katharine Merow's poem tells of the new geometries  developed with variations of Euclid's ...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Writing mathy poems - a student activity

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On the web-page of mathematician-poet Sarah Glaz I found a link to this file of math-related poems that she prompted students to write whe...
Thursday, December 26, 2013

The angel of numbers . . .

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This poem by Hanns Cibulka (1920 - 2004) -- translated from the German by Ewald Osers -- is collected in the anthology, Strange Attractors...
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Monday, November 11, 2013

The minute in infinity

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From   Treatise on Infinite Series       by Jacob Bernoulli Even as the finite encloses an infinite series       And in the unlimited li...
Thursday, November 7, 2013

Like advanced math?

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One thing leads to another . .. . poet Amy Eisner connected me to mathematician Jordan Ellenberg who knew of Easy Math ( Sarabande Books ...
Thursday, September 19, 2013

BRIDGES poems, from 17 poets

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Due to the hard work of mathematician-poet Sarah Glaz , poetry has been an important part of recent BRIDGES-Math-Art Conferences . And, unde...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

Your Favorite Number

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In the Washington, DC area's Beltway Poetry Quarterly , edited by Kim Roberts , I recently found this lively number-poem by Pennsylvani...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

Average, more or less . . .

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The wit of American poet J. V. Cunningham (1911–1985) is here applied to statistics.    Meditation on Statistical Method        by J. V. ...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Like poetry, mathematics is beautiful

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     Congratulations to Justin Southey who is completing his doctoral studies in mathematics at the University of Johannesburg under the dir...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Lieber's INFINITY -- poetic prose

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It has surprised me to discover that some of my best-remembered learning took place at the hands of teachers I did not particularly like.  O...
Sunday, July 24, 2011

Little Infinite Poem

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   Little Infinite Poem        by  Federico Garcia Lorca                For Luis Cardoza y Aragón       To take the wrong road    is t...
Monday, March 7, 2011

Numerology

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On her website Deanna Rubin describes herself this way, "I have a degree in Technical Writing and Computer Science from Carnegie Mello...
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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Sonnet for a geometry teacher

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Wisconsin poet Ronald Wallace has fun with math-words in the following sonnet that celebrates a teacher of plane geometry. 
Monday, November 8, 2010

One type of "mathematical" poetry

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When I began (in the 1980s) collecting examples of "mathematical poetry," I sought lines of verse that included some mathematical ...
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