Showing posts with label point. Show all posts
Showing posts with label point. Show all posts
Monday, June 13, 2016

When parallel lines meet, that is LOVE

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Bernadette Turner teaches mathematics at Lincoln University in Missouri. And, via a long-ago email (lost for a while, and then found) she h...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Giving thanks for poems

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     As Thanksgiving approaches I am thankful not only for many blessings but also for the numbers I use to count them -- eight grandchildre...
Sunday, October 26, 2014

Dimensions of Discovery

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Along the one-dimensional straight line there are points and segments but no curves or squares. In the flat plane of two dimensions  t...
Monday, September 15, 2014

Remembering Lee Lorch

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      Lee Lorch was a mathematician known for his social activism on behalf of black Americans as well as for his mathematics. He died in ...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Averaging . . . geometry of the center

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Perhaps partly due to his experience as an Air Force pilot during World War II,  Harold Nemerov (1920 - 1991) uses geometry with deft precis...
Sunday, March 31, 2013

What are the odds -- of a kiss?

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Virginia poet Bernadette Geyer has a new (2013) poetry book, The Scabbard of Her Throat -- and I have been exploring these engaging poems ...
Saturday, October 6, 2012

Geometry . . . a way of seeing

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Today's poem is not only a fine work of art, it is also -- for me-- a doorway to memory.   I first heard it in the poet's voice when...
Friday, July 15, 2011

I have dreamed geometry

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   Descartes        by Jorge Luis Borges    I am the only man on earth, but perhaps there is neither earth nor man.    Perhaps a god is ...
Sunday, May 22, 2011

Spacetime

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   Spacetime      by Miroslav Holub (1932-1998)    When I grow up and you get small,    then --
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Coleridge: A Mathematical Problem

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 "A Mathematical Problem" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge  (1772-1834) -- found online at Elite Skills Classics  -- uses verse to descr...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Poems of set paradox and spatial dimension

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Universal Paradox      by Sandra DeLozier Coleman      One gigantic set made of all that there is      Boggles the mind with paradoxes. ...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Thinking about Thinking

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The question of what it means to think is never far from my focus -- and is particularly on my mind during these days that the computer Wats...
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Friday, December 31, 2010

The year ends -- and we go on . . .

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Immortal Helix      by Archibald MacLeish    (1892-1982) HEREUNDER Jacob Schmidt who, man and bones, Has been his hundred times around th...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

More from Guillevic

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     My October 13 post  presented three small poems by the French poet Guillevic (1909-97).  Strongly drawn to his work, I have purchased ...
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Monday, September 27, 2010

Ideal Geometry -- complex politics

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Christopher Morley (1890-1957) was an American poet, novelist, and publisher who was the son of a poet and musician (Lilian Janet Bird) and...
Monday, August 30, 2010

What is the point? -- consider Euclid

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A two-line poem by Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda (1904-73), found in my bilingual edition of Extravagaria , reminded me of the poetic nature ...
Monday, May 10, 2010

Margaret Cavendish (1623-73) -- The Circle of the Brain cannot be Squared

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Margaret Cavendish (1623-73) was a writer who published under her own name at a time when most women published anonymously.  Her writing ad...