Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Friday, February 24, 2023

Math-Poetry Word Cloud

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      On this February Friday I became curious once-again about the frequency of various mathy-poetic words used here in my blog -- and I we...
Monday, August 15, 2016

Find math-poetry links in BRIDGES archives

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     As noted in last week's posts, the annual international math-arts festival, BRIDGES, recently was held in Finland.  Now the archive...
Thursday, December 31, 2015

Precision leads to poetry . . .

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As the year ends, a quote from one of my once-favorite authors, Don DeLillo (in correspondence with David Foster Wallace -- whose Infinite ...
Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Are we speaking of "mathematics" or "poetry"?

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     This week started with the excitement of an email message from Evelyn Lamb with a link to her Scientific American blog where she crea...
Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Thanksgiving, 2015

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Thinking toward Thanksgiving Day tomorrow, I am grateful for  --  in addition to my children and grandchildren who will gather --  all ...
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...
Monday, November 16, 2015

Encouragement from fathers, a second view

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     Despite the importance of fathers' encouragement (as noted in my post on 13 November ), some women oppose their fathers' views....
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...
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 -...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

The magic of mathematics (in art)

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     Australian teacher and  poet Erica Jolly is convinced that breaking down the barriers that make silos of sciences and humanities subj...
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...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Reservation Mathematics

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Both a talented writer and an articulate conveyor of the culture of American Indians, Sherman Alexie is a Spokane / Coeur d’Alene Indian f...
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Thursday, August 6, 2015

Buffalo 66

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     Nearly twenty years ago, in the formative years of River Poets (in Bloomsburg, PA), Jim Murray from Shamokin, then a student at Bloom...
Saturday, July 25, 2015

Math and Poetry and Climate

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Canadian poet Madhur Anand is also an Environmental Scientist; her love of nature and concerns for preserving a habitable climate pervade h...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Visual-mathematical poetry

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      The poems that I write and most of the poems that I include in this blog use mathematical patterns to structure their lines and stanza...
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Monday, June 22, 2015

Uncertainty . . .

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     Sometimes we find things of great value when we are looking for something else -- in fact, Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges has sai...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Galileo in Florence

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Poetry found in the words of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642): "Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands cont...
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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Sonnets from The Voyage of the Beagle

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 The sonnet is a song of the body as well as of the mind: 14 breaths     5 heartbeats each breath A few weeks ago I had the opportuni...
Sunday, May 3, 2015

Lines of breathless length

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Brief reflections on definitions of LINE . . .           Breathless length      by JoAnne Growney           A LINE, said Euclid, lies ev...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Remembering Abraham Lincoln

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Today -- April 14, 2015 -- marks the 150th birthday of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) and April 15 is the dat...