Showing posts with label mathematical. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mathematical. Show all posts
Friday, September 18, 2015

Words of Ada Lovelace

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The se po etic words of Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) -- concerning translation of mathematical principles into practical forms -- I found here ...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Visual-mathematical poetry

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      The poems that I write and most of the poems that I include in this blog use mathematical patterns to structure their lines and stanza...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Found poetry - words of Dirac

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The epigraph for Richard Bready's " Times of Sand " (a stanza of which I posted a few days ago on 21 February ) is a quote fro...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

In Praise of Fractals

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     Philosopher Emily Grosholz is also a poet -- a poet who often writes of mathematics. Tessellations Publishing has recently (2014) pub...
Monday, October 20, 2014

Martin Gardner collected poems

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     Last week the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) had a special program honoring Martin Gardner (1914-2010); tomorrow (October 21...
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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Martin Gardner, again

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     This past weekend a review by Teller (magician of the Penn & Teller team) of an autobiography of Martin Gardner appeared in the ...
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Monday, December 23, 2013

Ah, you are a mathematician

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Thanks to Arturo Sangalli of the Writer's Union of Canada -- and fellow-participant in a recent Banff creativity conference --  who re...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

What is not possible?

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     It is impossible for a number to be greater than 2 if it is not greater than 1.  It is impossible to find a rational number whose squar...
Sunday, March 3, 2013

A mathematician, a poet, a woman

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When I contacted University of Kansas mathematician Judith Roitman for permission to include her poem "Sixth Cosmogony" in this p...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

The magic of "i"

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  An exciting math event occurred last week -- the opening of MoMath ,  a Manhattan museum that makes math fun.   Still thinking about...
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Friday, November 23, 2012

Women Scientists in America

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That one, Mary Gray ,  is bold, mathematical, and female.  One of the founders (one-nine-seven-one) of the Association for ...
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Monday, October 29, 2012

Greatest common factor

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Sometimes a mathematical phrase offers a splendid concentration of meaning in an otherwise non-mathematical poem.  This is the case in the p...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Puzzle poems from Benjamin Banneker

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Benjamin Banneker (1731 - 1806) was a free African American mathematician and  almanac author -- also an astronomer, surveyor, and farmer....
Monday, August 6, 2012

Spanish favorites

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One of my favorite DC-area poet-people is Yvette Neisser Moreno -- who, besides giving us her own work, is active in translation of  Spanis...
Saturday, July 14, 2012

More of Hypatia -- brave, smart woman

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Poet and blogger Ellen Moody offers a lively and informative feature on poet Elizabeth Tollett (1694-1754) ; Tollett, too, wrote of forebe...
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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Natural numbers

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     My just-previous posting tells of a Monday poetry reading I was able to attend.  On Monday, May 14, a poetry reading took place that ...
Thursday, January 12, 2012

The Function Room

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For each of us who's studied mathematics, the word "function" triggers important mathematical meanings. And so, when I read Pa...
Monday, December 26, 2011

A mathematical woman

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As in an earlier posting ( 20 December 2011 ), today's feature includes verse by Lord Byron (1788-1824). This time the source is Byron&...
Saturday, December 17, 2011

Ruth Stone counts

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It seemed as if she might write -- and write well -- forever.  But she did not.  Moreover, poems by award-winning poet Ruth Stone (1915-201...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

A puzzle with a partial solution

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     When we have experiences near to each other, we may try to connect them. We form superstitions. "Bad things come in threes"...
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