Showing posts with label puzzle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label puzzle. Show all posts
Monday, February 15, 2016

How Old Is the Rose-Red City?

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     Most of Martin Gardner 's fans are avid puzzler's -- my connection with him is also one of admiration (he was a thoughtful pers...
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Generalized Pythagorean Theorem--a visual poem?

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While thinking about my December 13 posting featuring work by Richard Kostelanetz -- visual poetry with numbers -- I was browsing a fascina...
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Sunday, September 28, 2014

Journal of Math in the Arts features Poetry

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A special issue of the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts entitled "Poetry and Mathematics" is now available online at this link...
Monday, October 14, 2013

"My Proteins"

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The mysteries of science are sometimes explored in poems and, in this vein, I was delighted to find "My Proteins" by Jane Hirshfie...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Puzzle poems from Benjamin Banneker

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Benjamin Banneker (1731 - 1806) was a free African American mathematician and  almanac author -- also an astronomer, surveyor, and farmer....
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Following Euler in Koenigsberg

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     The Köenigsberg Bridges have an important link to mathematics -- for mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) took a legendary Köenigs...
Monday, February 14, 2011

Puzzles, puzzlers, and parody

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     For lots of fun, go to plus online magazine at this link to find a poem that requires a knight's tour of a chess board for you to...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

I miss you, Martin Gardner

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Martin Gardner (1914-2010), featured also in my June 6 posting , would have been 96 years old today--October 21, 2010.  All over the world ...
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Monday, March 29, 2010

"Mathematical" Limericks

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A dozen, a gross, and a score Plus three times the square root of four      Divided by seven      Plus five times eleven Is nine squared...
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