Showing posts with label palindrome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label palindrome. Show all posts
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  ...
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Conversational mathematics

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In recent weeks I have been experimenting with poems that use mathematical terminology, wondering whether -- since there are readers who are...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Celebrate Constraints -- Happy Birthday, OULIPO

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Patrick Bahls and Richard Chess of the University of North Carolina at Ashville have organized a " Conference on Constrained Poetry &...
Monday, October 11, 2010

Varieties of palindromes in poetry

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My posting for October 6  mentioned palindromes. Today we continue with the topic, including illustrations of the various ways they may infl...
Wednesday, October 6, 2010

"Poetry, in other words, is mathematics"

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From Tim Love , British poet and member of the Computer Systems Group in the Engineering Department at Cambridge University, I received thi...
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Monday, June 7, 2010

Celebrate Martin Gardner (1914-2010)

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Martin Gardner described his relationship to poetry as that of "occasional versifier" -- he is the author, for example, of:    ...