Showing posts with label line. Show all posts
Showing posts with label line. Show all posts
Monday, June 18, 2018

Choose the right LINE

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     Recently, looking through my copies of POETRY Magazine , in the September 2008 issue I found this quote (used as an epigraph) from a p...
Monday, June 13, 2016

When parallel lines meet, that is LOVE

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Bernadette Turner teaches mathematics at Lincoln University in Missouri. And, via a long-ago email (lost for a while, and then found) she h...
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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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...
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...
Thursday, January 8, 2015

The Geometry of Winter, with Eagles

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A poetry-listening opportunity in the Washington, DC area : Poet Martin Dickinson will read from his new collection, My Concept of Time ...
Sunday, December 28, 2014

A Fractal Poem

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    A fractal is an object that displays self-similarity -- roughly, this means that the parts have the same shape as the whole -- as in th...
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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...
Sunday, October 26, 2014

Dimensions of Discovery

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Along the one-dimensional straight line there are points and segments but no curves or squares. In the flat plane of two dimensions  t...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Land without a square

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Here is a bit of light verse from the pen of John Updike (1932-2009). ZULUS LIVE IN LAND  WITHOUT A SQUARE      by John Updike       ...
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...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Dimensions of a soul

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In the poem below, Young Smith uses carefully precise terms of Euclidean geometry to create a vivid interior portrait.      She Considers...
Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Can you SEE the monument?

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Links to non-intersecting celebrations of April as National Poetry Month      and      Mathematics Awareness Month are available here ...
Sunday, February 2, 2014

Forecasting snow and poetry

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Snowbound is that other world in which no schedules sit and no ambitions flare to interrupt the bluest sky and whitest field and coldest ...
Monday, October 21, 2013

Topology for poets

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     The title of this posting ("Topology for Poets") comes from Maryland Poet Amy Eisner 's poem "Lure" (offered be...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Spheres and parallels

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On 23 January 2013 I posted a latitude-longitude poem "Zero-Zero" by Elizabeth Bodien and today I offer another of her poems of ...
Saturday, January 12, 2013

Because the mind circles an idea

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Besides eight books of poetry and a memoir, California poet Lucille Lang Day has co-authored a textbook, How to Encourage Girls in Math and...
Saturday, November 10, 2012

Symmetry in poetry

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In Euclidean Geometry, objects retain their size and shape during rigid motions (also called symmetries ); one of these is translation -- ...
Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Word Play -- "Of Time and the Line"

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Charles Bernstein , poet and teacher,  experiments with poetry   and prefers "opaque" and "impermeable" writing -- to aw...
Saturday, October 6, 2012

Geometry . . . a way of seeing

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Today's poem is not only a fine work of art, it is also -- for me-- a doorway to memory.   I first heard it in the poet's voice when...