Showing posts with label pi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pi. Show all posts
Monday, July 15, 2024

Math films -- and a Pi-song

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     A film project worthy of support ( and found at this website )  is JOURNEYS OF BLACK MATHEMATICIANS : A documentary project by writer...
Monday, December 19, 2016

Numbers for Christmas . . .

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* o n t o p g i v e l i g h t f r e e l y f o r e v e r a b u n d a n t b r i l l i a n t e v e r y w h e r e LOVE MATH! Christmas ...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

Euler formula poem

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     Sometimes I try to write a poem that explains a mathematical concept -- it's a difficult task  My effort usually results in someth...
Friday, September 11, 2015

Songs of mathematics . . .

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     Larry Lesser is a songwriter who uses lyrics for teaching as well as entertainment.  A varied sample of his creations for doing this a...
Friday, March 6, 2015

Celebrate Pi -- write in Pilish

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On 3/14/15 many of us will celebrate  π - day; for those who like to gaze on the digits of  π ,  one hundred thousand of them are available...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Poetry Reading 1-11-15 at JMM in San Antonio

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You are invited to a poetry reading  sponsored by the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics at the 2015 Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) ...
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...
Monday, December 23, 2013

Ah, you are a mathematician

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Thanks to Arturo Sangalli of the Writer's Union of Canada -- and fellow-participant in a recent Banff creativity conference --  who re...
Thursday, November 7, 2013

Like advanced math?

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One thing leads to another . .. . poet Amy Eisner connected me to mathematician Jordan Ellenberg who knew of Easy Math ( Sarabande Books ...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Love mathematics!

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In the stanzas below, I have some fun with math terminology.  Hope you'll enjoy it too.        Love!         by JoAnne Growney      ...
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Kaplansky sings Kaplansky (and Pi)

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     I first knew of mathematician Irving Kaplansky (1917-2006) through his monograph, Infinite Abelian Groups -- it was one of my texts f...
Monday, August 26, 2013

Celebrating a math-woman

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I am continually searching for poems that feature past and current math-women. When you find one (or create one) I will be glad to have yo...
Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Feynman Point poems

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The Feynman Point is a sequence of six 9s that occurs in the decimal expansion of π -- these 9s are found in positions 762 - 767 following t...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

What is not possible?

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     It is impossible for a number to be greater than 2 if it is not greater than 1.  It is impossible to find a rational number whose squar...
Sunday, March 10, 2013

Celebrate 3.14 with poems of Pi

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     Soon this year's version of the date 3.14 will arrive.  Pi-day!      At the 2012 Bridges Conference in Towson MD I had the oppor...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Places to go, ideas to see

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     Today I want to suggest interesting internet locations to visit.      This first link leads to an hour-long documentary on YouTube on...
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Sunday, December 30, 2012

A chance encounter

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     I invite you to celebrate the coming of the new year 2013 with a poem I like a lot.      Alberta poet Alice Major produces poems that...
Thursday, May 3, 2012

Pipher -- Math experiments, Pi

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     'Tis a favorite project of mine      A new value of pi to assign.           I would fix it at 3           For it's sim...
Sunday, March 11, 2012

Chatting about REAL numbers

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The term " real number " confuses many who are not immersed in mathematics.  For these, to whom 1, 2, 3 and the other counting ...
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Sunday, November 27, 2011

How much for a digit of PI?

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Scottish poet Brian McCabe writes playfully of numbers.  In the following poem he imagines an auction of the digits of   π .    Three Poi...