Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics

Mathematical language can heighten the imagery of a poem; mathematical structure can deepen its effect. Feast on an international menu of poems made rich by mathematical ingredients -- and gathered here by JoAnne Growney, whose personal website is at https://joannegrowney.com/ .

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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Puzzle play

In volume 4 of The World of Mathematics ( James R Newman, Editor; Dover 2003 ), in a section entitled "Amusements, Puzzles, and Fanci...

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Prisoner's Dilemma -- and permutations

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

Monday, May 17, 2010

Sense and Nonsense

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

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Poems starring mathematicians - 2

P ublished a century later than William Benjamin Smith's "The Merman and the Seraph" (see April 14 posting ) we have Crossing ...

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