Showing posts with label odd. Show all posts
Showing posts with label odd. Show all posts
Friday, November 21, 2014

The Math Lady Sings

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     One of my daily emails results from a Google Alert -- which I have set up to let me know of new web-postings (or old information newly...
Saturday, July 19, 2014

Mathematicians are not free to say . . .

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The poetry of a mathematician is constrained by the definitions she knows from mathematics.  Even though all but one of the prime integers i...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Palindromes

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     Palindromic numbers are not uncommon  -- recently (in the July 12 posting ) power-of-eleven palindromes are mentioned.  Palindromic p...
Saturday, July 12, 2014

Prove It

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After observing that                1  =  1 and         1 + 3  =  4 and         1 + 3 + 5  =  9 and         1 + 3 + 5 + 7  =  16 and  ...
Thursday, February 7, 2013

Odd numbers are common

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A few weeks ago, on Thursday January 17, Chicago poet Virginia Bell was one of the very fine poets who participated (along with me) at a re...
Friday, May 27, 2011

The Bridges of Konigsberg

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From the August 1997 issue of The Mathematical Intelligencer , we have this poem by Judith Saunders  about a long-standing puzzle solved so...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

The Nightmare of an Unsolved Problem

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Back in the 1980s when I first met the Collatz conjecture in a number theory textbook it was stated this way:      Start with any whole nu...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

A Lemma by Constance Reid

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Constance Reid (1918-2010), died on October 14.  Sister of a mathematician (Julia Robinson), Reid wrote first about life in World War II fa...
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