Showing posts with label opposite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label opposite. Show all posts
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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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Balancing Opposites -- Tagore's Epigrams

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Many important mathematical ideas occur as pairs of opposites:          -2 and +2 (additive inverses) , 5 and 1/5 (multiplicative inverses)...
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, October 8, 2014

Love Physics

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It turns out that one of the disadvantages of a long-term blog with lots of worthy material is that sometimes I lose track of fine work that...
Friday, June 20, 2014

Three thousand, and two

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Here is a small poem richly vivid with the contrasts of opposites:                  beside a stone three                  thousand years ...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

Mother Courage -- and speaking of opposites

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     Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) was a poet , but I have not found mathematics in his poems.  Still, I want to note here a fantastic perform...
Saturday, October 6, 2012

Geometry . . . a way of seeing

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Today's poem is not only a fine work of art, it is also -- for me-- a doorway to memory.   I first heard it in the poet's voice when...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

A whole and its parts

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     Aristotle may have been the first to assert that a whole is more than the sum of its parts .  Mathematics textbooks are likely to say ...