Showing posts with label precision. Show all posts
Showing posts with label precision. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

PRECISION vs. IMAGINATION

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     In the creation and development of both mathematics and poetry both PRECISION and IMAGINATION are important.  Recently I came across th...
Sunday, September 30, 2012

The best of the many

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     Here I link to an article by David Alpaugh, "The New Math of Poetry," -- not brand-new, for it bears a date of February, 201...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

More statistics -- from Hiawatha

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As the author of this poem owes a debt to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, I too owe Greg Coxson -- who showed the poem to me. Hiawatha Designs...
Monday, October 25, 2010

Writing poetry like mathematics

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In an article about the Chilean mathematician and poet Nicanor Parra , Paul M Pearson says , :  "Parra almost wrote poetry like he woul...
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Thursday, September 9, 2010

Grasping at TIME

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Different persons experience time differently -- as illustrated by the few lines included below (part II of  "Time" from my new co...
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Thursday, August 19, 2010

From Miroslav Holub -- a reflection on accuracy

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In applications of mathematics, as in other scientific research, it is important to distinguish between the precision of measurements (how ...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

John Donne's numbers

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       Perhaps best known for the religious themes in his poetry, John Donne (1572-1631) also wrote many love poems. Although the mathematic...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Howard Nemerov's mathematical imagery

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GETTING IT RIGHT IN LANGUAGE -- Poets and mathematicians alike are concerned with precise statement. Two-time US Poet Laureate Howard Nemero...
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