Showing posts with label proof. Show all posts
Showing posts with label proof. Show all posts
Monday, June 6, 2016

A poem, a contradiction . . .

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     One stra tegy for proving a mathemat ical theorem is a " proof by contradiction ."  In such a proof one begins by supposing t...
Monday, November 2, 2015

Artificial Intelligence in the Library . . .

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     Libraries are wonderful places and library book sales are temptations impossible to resist -- and so, during a recent trip to Boston an...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

Math fun with song lyrics

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Song-writer Bill Calhoun is a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics at Pennsylvania's Bloom...
Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Poet as mathematician

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     Lillian Morrison (1917-2014) was a NYC poet and librarian whose work I first met in the poetry-with-math anthology, Against Infinity ....
Saturday, July 12, 2014

Prove It

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After observing that                1  =  1 and         1 + 3  =  4 and         1 + 3 + 5  =  9 and         1 + 3 + 5 + 7  =  16 and  ...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Excitement of Proving a Theorem

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Wow!  From first sighting, I have loved this description:        I prove a theorem and the house expands:        the windows jerk free to...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Split This Rock 2014

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     Plan now to attend the 4th national biennial Split This Rock Poetry Festiva l: Poems of Provocation & Witness in Washington, DC, Ma...
Sunday, September 15, 2013

Consider Pascal

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     Mathematician Blaise Pascal (France, 1623-1662) is known for his explorations with computing machines, for his ideas concerning proba...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

What is not possible?

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     It is impossible for a number to be greater than 2 if it is not greater than 1.  It is impossible to find a rational number whose squar...
Saturday, May 12, 2012

Ode to Alan Turing

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In this week of announcements in the US about evolving views concerning human sexual preferences, it seems fit to offer a second poem (see a...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Universal and Particular

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Poet Yves Bonnefoy (b 1923) is one of France's greatest living poets. And Bonnefoy's university studies included mathematics. I rea...
Monday, December 26, 2011

A mathematical woman

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As in an earlier posting ( 20 December 2011 ), today's feature includes verse by Lord Byron (1788-1824). This time the source is Byron&...
Friday, July 29, 2011

Mathematical Induction -- principle, perhaps poem

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One of my teachers -- I think it was Mr Smith in "College Algebra" during my freshman year at Westminster -- gave me these words t...
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...
Thursday, November 11, 2010

Theorem-proof / Cut-up / poems

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     For mathematicians, reading a well-crafted proof that turns toward its conclusion with elegance and perhaps surprise -- this mirrors a...
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