Showing posts with label poet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poet. Show all posts
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, October 29, 2015

Mathematics and Poetry ARE Similar

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        A recent email request sent me looking for a one-page article / quiz I had published in the American Mathematical Monthly in 1992 -...
Monday, October 19, 2015

Celebrating waves of light . . .

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     On October 8, Scotland's celebration of National Poetry Day had the theme "Light."  An online collection of themed poems...
Thursday, October 8, 2015

Daughter and Father - a warm geometry . . .

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     Kate Stange is a mathematician -- from the Canadian province of Ontario and now at the University of Colorado -- whose father, Ken Sta...
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...
Saturday, December 6, 2014

A scientist writes of scientists

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     Wilkes-Barre poet Richard Aston is many-faceted -- a teacher, an engineer, a textbook author, a technical writer.  And Aston writes of...
Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Poet as mathematician

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     Lillian Morrison (1917-2014) was a NYC poet and librarian whose work I first met in the poetry-with-math anthology, Against Infinity ....
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Poetry in Math Journals

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         The Mathematical Intelligencer (publisher of the poem by Gizem Karaali given below) and the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics...
Monday, August 11, 2014

Narrated by a mathematician

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Recently translated by Adam Morris, the novel With My Dog-Eyes (Melville House, 2014) by Brazilian writer Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) is narrat...
Thursday, July 3, 2014

Mathematician and Poet

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     Should I do it?  Should I do a blog post on a novel by Brazilian poet Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) that I have begun to read but don't ...
Friday, April 18, 2014

Poetry of Romania - Nora School, Apr 24

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     During several summers teaching conversational English to middle-school students in Deva, Romania, I became acquainted with the work of...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

Mother Courage -- and speaking of opposites

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     Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) was a poet , but I have not found mathematics in his poems.  Still, I want to note here a fantastic perform...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Graffiti Calculus

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     In my dreams I am an artist -- a cartoonist, perhaps, or a graffiti artist -- so skilled with lines and curves and so clever that my ar...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

A poet (math-daughter) speaks of math's beauty

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I met Minnesota poet Roseann Lloyd when we served together on an AWP (Associated Writing Programs) conference panel on translation several ...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

Two cultures

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The opening poem of Uneasy Relations by mathematician-poet Michael Bartholomew-Biggs is concerned with similarities and differences between...
Monday, September 23, 2013

A poet re-envisions space

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University of Pennsylvania professor Robert Ghrist , in his September 19 lecture ("Putting Topology to Work") at the MAA's Ca...
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Thursday, September 19, 2013

BRIDGES poems, from 17 poets

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Due to the hard work of mathematician-poet Sarah Glaz , poetry has been an important part of recent BRIDGES-Math-Art Conferences . And, unde...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Out of 100 -- in the Klondike Gold Rush

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Adding to my recent post on 19 August I note that OEDILF is seeking submissions.     Join the project :  submit limerick definitions of...
Friday, April 5, 2013

Miroslav Holub -- interview, poems

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Frequent readers of this blog probably know that Miroslav Holub is one of my favorite poets.  And it was a great delight to get a recent e-...
Sunday, March 3, 2013

A mathematician, a poet, a woman

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When I contacted University of Kansas mathematician Judith Roitman for permission to include her poem "Sixth Cosmogony" in this p...
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