Showing posts with label limit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label limit. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Judith Grabiner and Howard Nemerov

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     Last evening at the Distinguished Lecture Series sponsored by the MAA it was my privilege to hear an outstanding presentation by Judit...
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 ...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Graffiti Calculus

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     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...
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...
Friday, March 2, 2012

Seeing Distance -- geometry in photography

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One of my favorite poem-stanza styles is a syllable-square -- it distributes the weights of the words in a way that pleases me. The poem bel...
Friday, August 26, 2011

350: Science --> Poetry --> Music

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350 parts per million is the "safe upper limit" for CO 2 in our atmosphere presented by NASA scientist Jim Hansen in December 20...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Ray Bobo's mathematical poem

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Ray Bobo , a retired Georgetown mathematics professor, has written a love poem with mathematical symbols.  And, for those of us who might be...
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Monday, June 21, 2010

Poetry with mathematical symbols

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On the internet and elsewhere a variety of viewpoints are expressed about the criteria poetry should satisfy to be "mathematical."...