Showing posts with label mathematics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mathematics. Show all posts
Friday, February 24, 2023

Math-Poetry Word Cloud

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      On this February Friday I became curious once-again about the frequency of various mathy-poetic words used here in my blog -- and I we...
Friday, March 11, 2016

Celebrate Math Women

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     March is Women's History Month and, although this year's theme focuses on women in public service and government , my own thou...
Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Are we speaking of "mathematics" or "poetry"?

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     This week started with the excitement of an email message from Evelyn Lamb with a link to her Scientific American blog where she crea...
Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Thanksgiving, 2015

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Thinking toward Thanksgiving Day tomorrow, I am grateful for  --  in addition to my children and grandchildren who will gather --  all ...
Thursday, November 19, 2015

Axiom: A Mathematics of Poetry

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Today in a Facebook posting by Susanne Pumpluen  I learned of Discov-her , an online journal  featuring stories about women in Scienc...
Thursday, November 5, 2015

It is clear that . . .

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     " If I stand "      by Inger Christensen   (Denmark, 1935-2009)                If I stand                alone in the snow...
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 -...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

The magic of mathematics (in art)

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     Australian teacher and  poet Erica Jolly is convinced that breaking down the barriers that make silos of sciences and humanities subj...
Sunday, October 4, 2015

A mathematician's favorite poet

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     A summertime gift book that I have much enjoyed reading is Love & Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality by Edward Frenkel (Basic Book...
Monday, September 28, 2015

A subtraction problem

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Let's solve this subtraction problem:                     Women do the job             minus    the recognition.                  ...
Monday, August 31, 2015

The answer is NO

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This past weekend I have much enjoyed reading Mathematics:  a novel   by Jacques Roubaud   (Dalkey Archive Press, reprint 2010, translated f...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Reservation Mathematics

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Both a talented writer and an articulate conveyor of the culture of American Indians, Sherman Alexie is a Spokane / Coeur d’Alene Indian f...
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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, July 25, 2015

Math and Poetry and Climate

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Canadian poet Madhur Anand is also an Environmental Scientist; her love of nature and concerns for preserving a habitable climate pervade h...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Terror/Mathematics

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Several friends have sent me links to the poem " Terror/Mathematics " by Zeina Hashem Beck -- written after the beheading of 21 Ch...
Friday, July 3, 2015

A Voice Meant to be Spoken

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     Last month the Library of Congress named a new poet laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera , a Californian and Mexican-American whose work often...
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, June 29, 2015

Celebrating angles and rainbows . . .

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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Found poetry -- Mary Cartwright

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Recently I have been reading about mathematician Mary Cartwright (1900-1998) and working to develop a poem about her -- relying on a fine a...
Monday, June 22, 2015

Uncertainty . . .

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     Sometimes we find things of great value when we are looking for something else -- in fact, Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges has sai...