Showing posts with label mathematician. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mathematician. Show all posts
Monday, March 28, 2016

Contemplating the heavens

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English writer G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a poet but was better known for his pithy sayings.   For example, we have the following st...
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Soon it will be February -- and Valentine's Day

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     Looking back :  on February 12, 2011 I posted math-poetry suggestions for Valentine's Day at this link: Loving a mathematician (Va...
Monday, November 2, 2015

Artificial Intelligence in the Library . . .

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     Libraries are wonderful places and library book sales are temptations impossible to resist -- and so, during a recent trip to Boston an...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

Mathematics and Poetry ARE Similar

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        A recent email request sent me looking for a one-page article / quiz I had published in the American Mathematical Monthly in 1992 -...
Friday, October 23, 2015

JMM Seattle, 1-7-16 -- Poetry+Math+Art

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 Read your mathy poems in Seattle ! An invitation to participate -- in January!   Read on!  ANNOUNCING Poetry + Art + Math  January ...
Thursday, October 8, 2015

Daughter and Father - a warm geometry . . .

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     Kate Stange is a mathematician -- from the Canadian province of Ontario and now at the University of Colorado -- whose father, Ken Sta...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

Three (or fewer) choices

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Here is a link to an anthology of English translations of work by Chilean poet and mathematician, Nicanor Parra .   Some rank Nicanor Segun...
Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Sex, Maths, and the Brain

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I found this poetry in an abstract (with a link posted at "Women in Maths" on Facebook ) for a lecture by Professor Gina Rippon e...
Monday, March 23, 2015

March 23 -- Emmy Noether's birthday

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Today, March 23, 2015, Google celebrates the 133rd birthday of mathematician Emmy Noether .  In support of the celebration here is a link ...
Saturday, March 7, 2015

The mathematician, she . . . .

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     Tomorrow, March 8, is the International Day of the Woman -- and I celebrate the day with mixed feelings.  YES, there are many women I ...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Fractals -- poems and photos

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     Marc Frantz and Annalisa Crannell have written about mathematics and art ( Viewpoints:  Mathematical Perspectives and Fractal Geometr...
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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Poet as mathematician

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     Lillian Morrison (1917-2014) was a NYC poet and librarian whose work I first met in the poetry-with-math anthology, Against Infinity ....
Thursday, September 11, 2014

Hailstone numbers shape a poem

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     One of my favorite mathy poets is Halifax mathematician Robert Dawson -- his work is complex and inventive, and fun to puzzle over.  D...
Monday, August 11, 2014

Narrated by a mathematician

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Recently translated by Adam Morris, the novel With My Dog-Eyes (Melville House, 2014) by Brazilian writer Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) is narrat...
Thursday, July 3, 2014

Mathematician and Poet

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     Should I do it?  Should I do a blog post on a novel by Brazilian poet Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) that I have begun to read but don't ...
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...
Sunday, May 4, 2014

A pure mathematician (not!)

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Poet Arthur Guiterman (1871-1943) was known for his humorous verse. Here is "A Pure Mathematician" -- a poem that stereotypes ma...
Monday, February 10, 2014

To love, in perfect syllables

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     While looking for Valentine verse with a math connection, I opened my copy of The Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carroll (Chancel...
Friday, January 31, 2014

On shoulders of giants . . .

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     Washington, DC is a city rich with both poetry and mathematics.  Last Tuesday evening I attended a Mathematical Association of America ...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Extraneous -- and so on

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     Since my junior high math days, when I first heard the word "extraneous," I have loved the sound of it, the feel of my mouth ...
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