Showing posts with label prime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prime. Show all posts
Thursday, March 18, 2021

Probe the gaps between prime numbers . . .

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     Each issue of The New Yorker offers poetry, but seldom do the poems link to mathematics.  However, the issue for March 8, 2021 offers ...
Thursday, April 6, 2017

Prime -- with rhythm and rhyme

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     Earlier this year, an email from James D. Herren let me know about his recent e-book, Wit and Wonder, Poetry with Rhythm and Rhyme -- ...
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Friday, January 6, 2017

2017 is prime!

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     For her December 31 posting in Roots of Unity ( Scientific American blog ) mathematician Evelyn Lamb wrote about favorite primes --...
Friday, August 14, 2015

Primes and a paradox

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       Canadian poet Alice Major has loved and admired science and mathematics since girlhood and this background brings to her mathy poems...
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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...
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

April is . . . a time for math and poetry . . .

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     Once upon a time      I counted to the tenth prime      and found a word to rhyme. Tomorrow is not only April Fool's Day -- it...
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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...
Friday, November 21, 2014

The Math Lady Sings

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     One of my daily emails results from a Google Alert -- which I have set up to let me know of new web-postings (or old information newly...
Sunday, November 9, 2014

Composite or Prime?

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 Her age  is 9.   Is that 9 composite or prime?      I have a wonderful collection of grandchildren and am continually on the l...
Saturday, July 19, 2014

Mathematicians are not free to say . . .

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The poetry of a mathematician is constrained by the definitions she knows from mathematics.  Even though all but one of the prime integers i...
Friday, May 23, 2014

Math rap

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     Harry Baker is a Slam Champion who studies Maths at Bristol University, UK -- and his poetry sometimes features math, often having fu...
Wednesday, May 7, 2014

May 6, 1954

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I learned about it via a news broadcast on Pittsburgh radio station KDKA and, for some reason, the event stuck firmly in my memory.  I was 1...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Little Boxes

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It is hard to know what to say. Pete Seeger died yesterday at age 94.   94 = 2 x 47.  47 is prime. Here is a link to Pete singing "...
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 ...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Love mathematics!

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In the stanzas below, I have some fun with math terminology.  Hope you'll enjoy it too.        Love!         by JoAnne Growney      ...
Monday, August 19, 2013

OEDILF - the Limerick Dictionary

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     At this site   Editor-in-Chief Chris Strolin is coordinating development of OEDILF : The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form...
Saturday, May 25, 2013

Haiku to Mars

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  Send a Haiku to Mars on the MAVEN! NASA has a contest (deadline July 1)   to select three Haiku to send to Mars:   NASA is offering...
Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Happy New Year 2013

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One of the questions that may be asked about our new year is whether 2013 is composite or prime -- that is, whether it does or does not have...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Math humor

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      Phyllis Diller (1917-20120), outspoken and funny, pioneering female comedian, died Monday, August 20.  Her self-deprecating humor wa...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Analysis of a sacred site

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Poet Allison Hedge Coke descends from moundbuilders and mixed ancestry from several Native American communities with several Europoean ones...