Showing posts with label limerick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label limerick. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 2, 2022

World Book Day, celebrate Bright lady . . .

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      Tomorrow, March 3, is WORLD BOOK DAY -- and I use the occasion to pull off the shelf one of my favorites, The Mathematical Magpie ; st...
Monday, July 12, 2021

Limericks about Graphs -- Prize-Winners

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     A couple of weeks ago I posted information about prize-winning poetry in the Writing portion of the 2021 MoMath Steven Strogatz Contes...
Friday, May 21, 2021

MoMath Celebrates Limericks!

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     New York's Museum of Mathematics celebrated National Limerick Day on May 12 with an online program of contributors reading their m...
Monday, November 9, 2015

Limericks for Hedy Lamarr

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     When seeking to draft a poem quickly, it is useful to have some sort of pattern to follow -- a pattern helping to dictate word choice. ...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

Geometry of baseball

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Many poems are written of baseball; a few of them involve mathematics --  see the posting for April 9, 2010 for math-related baseball poems...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015

To add two and two

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     Today I call attention again (as in my post for 6 January, 2015 ) to the extensive  Science-Poetry collection edited by Norman Hugh R...
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Saturday, April 5, 2014

Logic in limericks

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In these lines, Sandra DeLozier Coleman (who participated in the math-poetry reading at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore in Janu...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

Poems and primes

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Friday morning, 1-17-2014, looking north from the Baltimore Convention Center        This past week I enjoyed Thursday and Friday at ...
Monday, August 19, 2013

OEDILF - the Limerick Dictionary

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     At this site   Editor-in-Chief Chris Strolin is coordinating development of OEDILF : The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form...
Saturday, February 9, 2013

Limericks and a Cardioid -- for Valentine's Day

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      Oh, math-lover most divine,      for you this mathy Valentine --           found when I looked           in a calculus book -- ...
Wednesday, December 5, 2012

That's so random! (NPR, OEDILF, etc.)

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     One of the challenges I face in friendly conversations is not to overreact to a "misuse" of the word random .  When I hear s...
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Sunday, July 8, 2012

What are the chances?

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Ohioan Miles David Moore is an active participant in Washington, DC literary activities, including a reading series at Arlington's Iot...
Thursday, May 3, 2012

Pipher -- Math experiments, Pi

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     'Tis a favorite project of mine      A new value of pi to assign.           I would fix it at 3           For it's sim...
Friday, April 27, 2012

Poetry with Math -- BRIDGES 2012, Limericks

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During July 25-29, 2012, Towson University will be hosting BRIDGES 2012 , a mathematics-and-the-arts interdisciplinary conference. This yea...
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Monday, March 26, 2012

Poems with Numbers

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      Hats off to the organizers and presenters at the 2012 Split This Rock Poetry Festival held in DC this past weekend.  Great poets, gr...
Friday, September 2, 2011

Two ways to compute 1/3

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Here, from  Betsy Devine and Joel E Cohen , is a "mathematical" limerick:         An Integral Limerick
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Friday, April 9, 2010

April: along with baseball we celebrate poetry and mathematics

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Is it coincidence or design that       April  is   National Poetry Month                          and    April  is  Mathematics Awaren...
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Monday, March 29, 2010

"Mathematical" Limericks

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A dozen, a gross, and a score Plus three times the square root of four      Divided by seven      Plus five times eleven Is nine squared...
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