Showing posts with label random. Show all posts
Showing posts with label random. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 8, 2015

It starts with counting . . .

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Mathematical imagery is one of the many features I enjoy in the work of Canadian environmental scientist and poet Madhur Anand .  Here is a ...
Sunday, March 3, 2013

A mathematician, a poet, a woman

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When I contacted University of Kansas mathematician Judith Roitman for permission to include her poem "Sixth Cosmogony" in this p...
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Sunday, January 6, 2013

Cities of Mathematics

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Judith Johnson 's multi-part poem, "Cities of Mathematics and Desire" is geometric in its descriptive power; scenes are constr...
Wednesday, December 5, 2012

That's so random! (NPR, OEDILF, etc.)

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     One of the challenges I face in friendly conversations is not to overreact to a "misuse" of the word random .  When I hear s...
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Friday, February 24, 2012

Universal and Particular -- Szymborska

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Like Yves Bonnefoy ( 21 February 2012 posting), Wislawa Szymborska  ( who died on  1 February 2012 ) was born in 1923.  Like him she was co...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

Average, more or less . . .

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The wit of American poet J. V. Cunningham (1911–1985) is here applied to statistics.    Meditation on Statistical Method        by J. V. ...
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Friday, August 5, 2011

Banach's Match Box Problem

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A poetry collection by Susan Case (see also 5 July 2011 posting )  --  The Scottish Cafe ( Slapering Hole Press , 2002) -- celebrates the ...