Showing posts with label parallel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parallel. Show all posts
Thursday, April 6, 2017

Prime -- with rhythm and rhyme

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     Earlier this year, an email from James D. Herren let me know about his recent e-book, Wit and Wonder, Poetry with Rhythm and Rhyme -- ...
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Monday, June 13, 2016

When parallel lines meet, that is LOVE

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Bernadette Turner teaches mathematics at Lincoln University in Missouri. And, via a long-ago email (lost for a while, and then found) she h...
Saturday, July 25, 2015

Math and Poetry and Climate

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Canadian poet Madhur Anand is also an Environmental Scientist; her love of nature and concerns for preserving a habitable climate pervade h...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

Celebrating Ada Lovelace

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Recently I have purchased the anthology, Raising Lilly Ledbetter:  Women Poets Occupying the Workplace (edited by Caroline Wright, M.L. Lyo...
Sunday, November 30, 2014

Geometry of Love

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     A couple of weeks ago my "Google Alert" linked me to a posting of a science poem concerning "the geometry of love."...
Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Can you SEE the monument?

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Links to non-intersecting celebrations of April as National Poetry Month      and      Mathematics Awareness Month are available here ...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

One geometry is not enough

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Writer Katharine Merow is in the Publications Department of the Washington DC headquarters of the MAA ( Mathematical Association of America...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Split This Rock 2014

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     Plan now to attend the 4th national biennial Split This Rock Poetry Festiva l: Poems of Provocation & Witness in Washington, DC, Ma...
Friday, October 26, 2012

Geometry of Trees

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     Donna Masini, one of my poetry teachers at Hunter College, offered this rule of thumb for use of a particular word in a poem:  the word...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Counting (with sadness) in Syria

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Burmese poet ko ko thett is an activist-scholar and, at present, a resident of Vienna, Austria. I became acquainted with his work through ...
Monday, December 26, 2011

A mathematical woman

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As in an earlier posting ( 20 December 2011 ), today's feature includes verse by Lord Byron (1788-1824). This time the source is Byron&...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Like poetry, mathematics is beautiful

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     Congratulations to Justin Southey who is completing his doctoral studies in mathematics at the University of Johannesburg under the dir...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Personal geometry

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We have recently passed the first anniversary of the death (6 May 2010) of Elena Shvarts, one of Russia's finest contemporary poets. H...
Friday, October 15, 2010

Voices in a Geometry Classroom

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I have been invited to return next week ( October 20 at 7 PM ) to Bloomsburg University, where I taught mathematics for lots of years, for a...
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Monday, October 4, 2010

"The Reckoning" by M. Sorescu (Romania,1936-96)

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Works by poet and playwright   Marin Sorescu (1936-1996) continue to be popular with Romanian readers--and he is one of the most-frequently...
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Monday, May 17, 2010

Sense and Nonsense

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     Nonsense verse has a prominent place in the poetry that mathematicians enjoy. Perhaps this is so because mathematical discovery itself...
Thursday, May 6, 2010

Mathematical 'grooks' from Piet Hein

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Piet Hein (Denmark, 1905-1996) was many-faceted--by times a philosopher, mathematician, designer, scientist, inventor of games and poet. He...