Showing posts with label poem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poem. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Art / Poem / Numbers (posted 7/14/13, then lost)

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     Recently I discovered a typo in my posting on July 14, 2013 of "Poem 25" by Kurt Schwitters.  My attempt to fix my typo led t...
Monday, February 15, 2016

How Old Is the Rose-Red City?

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     Most of Martin Gardner 's fans are avid puzzler's -- my connection with him is also one of admiration (he was a thoughtful pers...
Thursday, November 19, 2015

Axiom: A Mathematics of Poetry

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Today in a Facebook posting by Susanne Pumpluen  I learned of Discov-her , an online journal  featuring stories about women in Scienc...
Friday, November 13, 2015

Encouragement from fathers

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     It was my observation as a professor in a mostly-male mathematics department that the men who joined me in supporting opportunities for...
Thursday, November 5, 2015

It is clear that . . .

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     " If I stand "      by Inger Christensen   (Denmark, 1935-2009)                If I stand                alone in the snow...
Monday, November 2, 2015

Artificial Intelligence in the Library . . .

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     Libraries are wonderful places and library book sales are temptations impossible to resist -- and so, during a recent trip to Boston an...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

C K Williams -- Three Mile Island

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A poet whose work I have long enjoyed, C K Williams   (1936-1915), died a few days ago.  (You may find a generous sample of his poems online...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015

It starts with counting . . .

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Mathematical imagery is one of the many features I enjoy in the work of Canadian environmental scientist and poet Madhur Anand .  Here is a ...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

Mathematical Modeling

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My friend and colleague, University of Connecticut mathematician Sarah Glaz , is an accomplished poet and is active in coordinating math-poe...
Monday, August 3, 2015

MatHEmatics / MatSHEmatics

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     Last week at the 2015 BRIDGES Math-Arts Conference in Baltimore I gave a short talk on using poetry to celebrate and inspire math girl...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

The culture for women in math and the sciences

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Perhaps the phrase "ordinary" women scientists is an oxymoron -- but it should not be.  Women should be free to populate the full...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Terror/Mathematics

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Several friends have sent me links to the poem " Terror/Mathematics " by Zeina Hashem Beck -- written after the beheading of 21 Ch...
Friday, July 3, 2015

A Voice Meant to be Spoken

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     Last month the Library of Congress named a new poet laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera , a Californian and Mexican-American whose work often...
Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Square stanzas for Women in Maths

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Women in Maths -- it all adds up.      Go here for "It All Adds Up" -- a story in plus Magazine by Rachel Thomas ...
Friday, May 29, 2015

Add and subtract to get . . . a minimalist poem

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Thinking today of poet Bob Grumman (1941-2015) with special gratitude for the way he expanded my poetic horizons.  For example, he introduc...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

Stars and men revolve in a cycle . . .

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In a book-discussion group in which I participate, we are reading some of the short fiction of Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) and that readi...
Friday, May 8, 2015

Include Arts in STEM -- and have STEAM !

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Welcome to this blog where we support STEAM ! Visit YouTube for   math -student, performance- poet Harry Baker's  "A love...
Thursday, March 26, 2015

The problem of time

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Californian Brenda Hillman is a poet whose work I like and admire.  In "Time Problem" she weaves prime numbers into a deft descri...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Similar, self-similar -- fractals, a poem

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      In geometry two objects are said to be similar if they have the same shape --- which happens if their angles are the same size and oc...
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...