Showing posts with label logic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label logic. Show all posts
Friday, April 15, 2016

From a math-friend and an Ohio poet

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     One of the wonderful things about writing a blog about my paired passions of poetry and mathematics is that the blog connects me with f...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Rabbis should learn to solve quadratics

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     Thanks to mathemagician Colm Mulcahy who connected me with poet Lisa Dordal -- and thanks to her for permission to offer these lines,...
Saturday, January 23, 2016

Not good at math . . .

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     Connecticut poet Joan Cannon is a senior who laments her lin gering anxiety over mathematics in her poem, "Humility," below...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

Celebrating Ada Lovelace

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Recently I have purchased the anthology, Raising Lilly Ledbetter:  Women Poets Occupying the Workplace (edited by Caroline Wright, M.L. Lyo...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

Multiplied by Rain

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     There are many mathematical terms that are used in daily life -- not only multiplied and divided and negative but also closure and ...
Saturday, February 28, 2015

Reflections on Logic

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Miroslav Holub (1923-1998), Czech poet and immunologist who excelled in both endeavors, is one of my favorite poets.  He combines scientifi...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Public Image of a Mathematician

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From John Dawson -- a professor emeritus of mathematics at the Penn State York campus and well-known for his publications in mathematical l...
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...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Balancing an Equation

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     I grew up on a farm and spent my middle life in a small town and now live in a city.  A sort of immigrant.  A farm girl who became a p...
Monday, April 2, 2012

Valley Voices

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With Richard Aston I share a love for science and logic, a love for poetry, and a love for the Susquehanna Valley.  His home is Wilkes-Bar...
Thursday, September 22, 2011

The wealth of ambiguity

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When we read these lines by Robert Burns  (1759-1796),      Oh my luv is like a red, red rose,      That's newly sprung in June . . ....
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

If p, then q.

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     Today's posting (as also on April 13 )  presents variations of the conditional statment -- a sentence of the form "If ___, th...
Monday, February 14, 2011

Puzzles, puzzlers, and parody

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     For lots of fun, go to plus online magazine at this link to find a poem that requires a knight's tour of a chess board for you to...
Monday, December 13, 2010

Satire Against Reason . . .

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     John Wilmot (1647-1680), 2nd Earl of Rochester , was a friend of King Charles II, and author of much satirical and bawdy poetry. Even t...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Poetry of Logical Ideas

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When the NY Times failed to publish an obituary following the death of noted algebraist Amalie "Emmy" Noether , Albert Einstein c...
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