Showing posts with label problem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label problem. Show all posts
Monday, September 28, 2015

A subtraction problem

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Let's solve this subtraction problem:                     Women do the job             minus    the recognition.                  ...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Algebra (sort of) in a short story

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  Tomorrow I head to Baltimore for the BRIDGES Math-Arts Conference. Explore the conference program at this link .  Would love to see you...
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Tuesday, June 2, 2015

17 syllables -- and other art

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What is he talking about?  What does he mean? The thought-provoking riddle posed by these 17 syllables (presented here as 3 square stanzas)...
Friday, August 8, 2014

Squaring the Circle

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Reminding us of the ancient unsolvable problem that so many attempted, the July/August 2014 issue of Poetry Magazine contains "Squari...
Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Divided selves, some of them savvy

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     For social connections, it is desirable not to be pegged as a member of an outcast group.  And thus a mathematician is likely to have a...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Word problems

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       Scarcity:  Why Having Too Little Means So Much (a Times book by S. Mullainathan and E. Shafir, released last September) considers n...
Sunday, September 23, 2012

From the Scottish Cafe

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     A poetry collection by Susan Case (see also 5 July 2011 and 5 August 2011 postings)  --  The Scottish Cafe ( Slapering Hole Press ,...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Things the fingers know

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Blogger Peter Cameron sent me a link to an lively article, " Eveline Pye: Poetry in Numbers "  in the September 2011 issue of the...
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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Mathematicians at work

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     About her collecton, The Scottish Café ( Slapering Hol Press , 2002), Susan Case offers this note:      This series of poems is loose...
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...