Showing posts with label plane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plane. Show all posts
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...
Sunday, October 26, 2014

Dimensions of Discovery

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Along the one-dimensional straight line there are points and segments but no curves or squares. In the flat plane of two dimensions  t...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Dimensions of a soul

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In the poem below, Young Smith uses carefully precise terms of Euclidean geometry to create a vivid interior portrait.      She Considers...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

Algebra cadabra

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It was my good fortune to meet Colette Inez back in the early 1990s when she was poet-in-residence at Bucknell University. Then, as now, I ...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Averaging . . . geometry of the center

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Perhaps partly due to his experience as an Air Force pilot during World War II,  Harold Nemerov (1920 - 1991) uses geometry with deft precis...
Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Four -- square, colors, theorem, poem

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During my doctoral study days at the University of Oklahoma I knew several mathematicians who were working on graph theory problems -- and a...
Thursday, April 25, 2013

Geometry of a hawk's flight

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One of the poets featured in the current Poetic Likeness Exhibit -- featuring photographs and paintings and sculptures of poets along with...
Saturday, May 26, 2012

Crocheting mathematics

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Charlotte Henderson majored in mathematics and English at Wellesley College and has applied her dual interests as an editor for A K Peters, ...
Friday, July 15, 2011

I have dreamed geometry

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   Descartes        by Jorge Luis Borges    I am the only man on earth, but perhaps there is neither earth nor man.    Perhaps a god is ...
Thursday, April 7, 2011

A poetic perspective on algebra

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     Last Monday (April 4), the Washington Post had an article concerning the value of Algebra II   as a predictor of college and work succ...
Monday, January 31, 2011

Romanian poets -- Cassian and Barbu

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Born in 1924, in Galati, Romania, Nina Cassian has published over fifty books -- besides poetry, she has works of fiction and books for chi...
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Monday, October 25, 2010

Writing poetry like mathematics

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In an article about the Chilean mathematician and poet Nicanor Parra , Paul M Pearson says , :  "Parra almost wrote poetry like he woul...
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Sunday, October 3, 2010

Art, poetry, and mathematics -- and Rafael Alberti

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On September 23 I was privileged to hear Annalisa Crannell , mathematics professor at Lancaster's Franklin and Marshall College, speak o...