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/ .

Showing posts with label integer. Show all posts

Showing posts with label integer. Show all posts

Saturday, July 12, 2014

Prove It

After observing that 1 = 1 and 1 + 3 = 4 and 1 + 3 + 5 = 9 and 1 + 3 + 5 + 7 = 16 and ...

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Graffiti Calculus

In my dreams I am an artist -- a cartoonist, perhaps, or a graffiti artist -- so skilled with lines and curves and so clever that my ar...

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

If p, then q.

Today's posting (as also on April 13 ) presents variations of the conditional statment -- a sentence of the form "If ___, th...

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Perfect as soap bubbles

An alert to today's poem came from Greg Coxson, a University of Wisconsin-educated, Silver Spring-based, radar engineer who loves mathem...

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Goldbach's conjecture -- easily stated but unsolved

This blog's July 20 posting featured work from poets who have spouses or siblings who are mathematicians. Today, introducing the work ...

Monday, July 12, 2010

Poetry-application of The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic

Destructive effects of human greed and neglect on the earth's natural environment are echoed hauntingly in the repetitions within "...

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