Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics

Mathematical language can heighten the imagery of a poem; mathematical structure can deepen its effect. Feast here on an international menu of poems made rich by mathematical ingredients . . . . . . . gathered by JoAnne Growney. To receive email notifications of new postings, contact JoAnne at joannegrowney@gmail.com.

Showing posts with label recursion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recursion. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Imagine a Fractal

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California poet Carol Dorf is also a math teacher and is poetry editor of the online journal TalkingWriting .  In the most recent issue of...
Sunday, March 22, 2015

March 21 -- World Poetry Day

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Yesterday poetry was celebrated around the world -- the Guardian reported the event with mention of Cafés around the world that offered a ...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Similar, self-similar -- fractals, a poem

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      In geometry two objects are said to be similar if they have the same shape --- which happens if their angles are the same size and oc...
Friday, August 3, 2012

JHM -- many math poems

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     Volume 2, Issue 2 (July 2012) of the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics has recently become available online -- and it has lots of p...
Friday, February 10, 2012

Recursion

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A mathematician may face a dilemma over the meaning of an ordinary term -- for words like "group" and "identity" and ...
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