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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Monday, November 6, 2017

Mathematics -- vital imagery in SO MANY poems . . .

Mathematics not only governs the structure of many poems -- of sonnets and pantoums and villanelles and more -- but mathematical imager...

Monday, February 14, 2011

Puzzles, puzzlers, and parody

For lots of fun, go to plus online magazine at this link to find a poem that requires a knight's tour of a chess board for you to...

Monday, December 6, 2010

Are all mathematicians equal?

My first posting for this blog (on March 23, 2010 ) featured one of my earliest poems, a tribute to mathematician Emmy Noether (1882 -1935)...

Friday, October 29, 2010

Ghost stories in algebra -- Happy Halloween!

Born in Yugoslavia, Charles Simic emigrated at age 15 to Chicago; widely known and respected as a poet and teacher (at the University of Ne...

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Ghosts of Departed Quantities

Years ago in calculus class I excitedly learned that an infinite number of terms may have a finite sum. Manipulation of infinities see...

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