Showing posts with label paradox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paradox. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 18, 2016

A math problem or a word problem?

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     One of my recent poetry-finds has been the anthology Regreen:  New Canadian Ecological Poetry , edited by Madhur Anand and Adam Dickin...
Friday, August 14, 2015

Primes and a paradox

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       Canadian poet Alice Major has loved and admired science and mathematics since girlhood and this background brings to her mathy poems...
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Sunday, June 8, 2014

Impossible Things Before Breakfast

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Literary works by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898, aka Lewis Carroll ) are crammed with mentions of mathematics.   One of my favorites ...
Thursday, September 19, 2013

BRIDGES poems, from 17 poets

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Due to the hard work of mathematician-poet Sarah Glaz , poetry has been an important part of recent BRIDGES-Math-Art Conferences . And, unde...
Sunday, September 15, 2013

Consider Pascal

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     Mathematician Blaise Pascal (France, 1623-1662) is known for his explorations with computing machines, for his ideas concerning proba...
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...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Poems of set paradox and spatial dimension

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Universal Paradox      by Sandra DeLozier Coleman      One gigantic set made of all that there is      Boggles the mind with paradoxes. ...
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...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

Prisoner's Dilemma -- and permutations

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In game theory's original, single-play, Prisoner's Dilemma problem, two prisoners each are given the choice between silence and bet...
Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Against Intuition

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One of my favorite poets (mentioned previously for her poem, "Pi" in my  September 6 posting ) is the Polish Nobelist (1996) Wisla...
Thursday, July 29, 2010

A wedding song -- shaped by mathematics

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This posting includes a stanza from of "A Wedding on Earth" by Annie Finch .  In the poet's words: the poem has 11 stanzas wit...
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