Showing posts with label math-women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label math-women. Show all posts
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. ...
Monday, August 3, 2015

MatHEmatics / MatSHEmatics

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     Last week at the 2015 BRIDGES Math-Arts Conference in Baltimore I gave a short talk on using poetry to celebrate and inspire math girl...
Saturday, June 22, 2013

Why is SHE less known? . . .

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Sometimes matching words to a syllable-count helps to bring focus to my musings.  Here are two stanzas for which I used the Fibonacci number...
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Monday, February 25, 2013

One of the best -- and a woman

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Women in mathematics have not been much-written-about.  This blog has made  a few corrective efforts and more are needed. Perhaps change is ...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

Tomorrow in San Diego -- Math Poetry Event

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If you are in San Diego tomorrow, I hope you will attend: A Reading of Poetry with Mathematics 5 – 7 PM    Friday, January 11, 2013 ...
Monday, September 3, 2012

An instrument in the shape of a woman

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     Celebrating math-women with poetry is a project to which I devoted several postings earlier this summer -- see, for example, these Ju...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

SHE can solve any equation!

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Today's New York Times offers a tribute to Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus , a professor emerita of physics and engineering at MIT.  The T...