Showing posts with label probability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label probability. Show all posts
Sunday, January 18, 2015

Probability and Coincidence

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     On page 26 of my copy of the latest New Yorker is a poem by Lia Purpura entitled " Probability ."  In her brief poem Purpur...
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Saturday, August 10, 2013

Pushkin poetry, Markov chains

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A Markov chain is a mathematical process that can be used to answer questions such as these:           If the current letter I am reading i...
Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Feynman Point poems

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The Feynman Point is a sequence of six 9s that occurs in the decimal expansion of π -- these 9s are found in positions 762 - 767 following t...
Saturday, August 25, 2012

Mindless chance

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From the 2005 Summer issue of from  Prairie Schooner we have this haunting poem by Diane Mehta about the unknown probabilities of life an...
Sunday, July 8, 2012

What are the chances?

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Ohioan Miles David Moore is an active participant in Washington, DC literary activities, including a reading series at Arlington's Iot...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Macbeth and Probability

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     Kansas City educator Michael Round of the Center for autoSocratic Excellence has developed a host of math teaching tools -- and withi...
Thursday, December 8, 2011

Monsieur Probabilty

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In recent months, I have encountered a variety of poems about mathematicians (Links to several of these are provided at the end of this post...
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