Showing posts with label measure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label measure. Show all posts
Monday, November 30, 2015

Sustainability needs the arts AND mathematics . . .

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The following poem is by Erica Jolly -- an Australian poet and retired teacher who is working hard to have the arts and the sciences integr...
Saturday, June 27, 2015

The power of eleven

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One of my recent poetry acquisition treasures is Measure for Measure:  An Anthology of Poetic Meters , edited by Annie Finch and Alexandra O...
Saturday, January 10, 2015

Opposites, Balance

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     Recently, and perhaps always, opposites have interested me.  For example, the complementary and sometimes  conflicting nuggets of advic...
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Saturday, December 20, 2014

The Girl Who Loved Triangles

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     I found this poem by Michigan poet Jackie Bartley when I was browsing old issues of  albatross (edited by Richard Smyth ) and she has...
Sunday, November 2, 2014

Poetry from the words of Lord Kelvin

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Do not imagine that mathematics  is hard and crabbed, and repulsive  to common sense.  It is merely the etherealization of common...
Friday, January 3, 2014

Count what counts

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When I visited Iceland last month, I looked in the bookstores of Reykjavik for bilingual (Icelandic-English) poetry collections; I found non...
Saturday, July 20, 2013

Poets at BRIDGES

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These seven poets will be reading math-related poems at the upcoming (July 27-31) BRIDGES Conference in Enschede, the Netherlands ; biograph...
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Calculus (and calyculus)

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For lots of years I have subscribed to A.Word.A.Day , founded by Anu Garg , and on 3 June 2013  -- offered in the category of "words th...
Monday, February 4, 2013

Problems of Translation

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     June Jordan's poem "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language" ( found at PoetryFoundation.org ) uses numbers and mea...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

Counting the seconds -- and leap seconds

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      Keeping time is a simple matter of counting -- counting seconds, summing them into minutes, hours, days. Or is it? Recent news has i...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

More statistics -- from Hiawatha

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As the author of this poem owes a debt to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, I too owe Greg Coxson -- who showed the poem to me. Hiawatha Designs...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

A jar in Tennessee

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     Several of my early insights concerning the connections between poetry and mathematics grew from ideas presented by poet Jonathan Holde...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Poets who Count

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For some poets, counting is part of the language of the poem. For others, counting determines the structure. Here are two poems of the forme...
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