Showing posts with label nothing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nothing. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Make Something of Nothing ... with Bob Dylan

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     The puzzle of nothing actually being something is central to our use of numbers -- and I use it today as an excuse to link to a Bob D...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

Use a phone App to find mathy poems

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A day late, Happy Birthday, E. E. Cummings   (b 14 October 1894, d 3 September 1962).      One of my favorite poetry sites is PoetryF...
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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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

The gift of a poem

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     In this holiday season of giving, sometimes the gifts are poems -- and sometimes mathy poems.  A few days ago, "Zero" by Robe...
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Sunday, March 16, 2014

Making something of nothing

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     Was zero invented or discovered?  When and how?  By whom?  In "The Origin of Zero" -- an article published in 2009 in in Scie...
Monday, November 21, 2011

Reading the Rubaiyat

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Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) was a mathematician who wrote poetry.  Here are two quatrains from his Rubaiyat .          XLVI    For in and ...
Monday, June 20, 2011

Something for nothing

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     Among my favorite mathematical ideas are the seeming-paradoxes -- notions that require a twist and a turn and a leap before one can say...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Dividing by Zero

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Fairy godmothers have their magic wands and mathematician have division by zero as a way to make the impossible happen -- for example, we ca...
Sunday, February 6, 2011

Electronic poetry -- Stephanie Strickland

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     Computers offer new opportunities for poetry -- permitting new types of poems.  Animated perhaps, or hypertext, or vast manuscripts of...
Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Creation from "nothing"

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     Christian Otto Josef Wolfgang Morgenstern (1871-1914) was a German writer whose poetry often involved paradox or nonsense and whose wi...
Monday, October 25, 2010

Writing poetry like mathematics

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In an article about the Chilean mathematician and poet Nicanor Parra , Paul M Pearson says , :  "Parra almost wrote poetry like he woul...
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