Showing posts with label space. Show all posts
Showing posts with label space. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 12, 2016

A sonnet for W.R.Hamilton

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      Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) was also a poet (see, for example, this sonnet in a prior posting (13 October...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Visual-mathematical poetry

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      The poems that I write and most of the poems that I include in this blog use mathematical patterns to structure their lines and stanza...
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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...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Fractals -- poems and photos

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     Marc Frantz and Annalisa Crannell have written about mathematics and art ( Viewpoints:  Mathematical Perspectives and Fractal Geometr...
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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Giving thanks for poems

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     As Thanksgiving approaches I am thankful not only for many blessings but also for the numbers I use to count them -- eight grandchildre...
Sunday, October 26, 2014

Dimensions of Discovery

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Along the one-dimensional straight line there are points and segments but no curves or squares. In the flat plane of two dimensions  t...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Dimensions of a soul

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In the poem below, Young Smith uses carefully precise terms of Euclidean geometry to create a vivid interior portrait.      She Considers...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

Homage to Euclid

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In my preceding post ( 20 March 2014 ) Katharine Merow's poem tells of the new geometries  developed with variations of Euclid's ...
Monday, September 23, 2013

A poet re-envisions space

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University of Pennsylvania professor Robert Ghrist , in his September 19 lecture ("Putting Topology to Work") at the MAA's Ca...
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Sunday, June 2, 2013

Geometry of distance

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     Some of the poems herein arrive as gifts from friends.  Today's poem came via e-mail from Susan (a Californian whom I have gotten t...
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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Monday, November 12, 2012

Finding fault with a sphere . . .

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     On November 9 I had the pleasure (hosted by Irina Mitrea and Maria Lorenz ) of talking (" Thirteen Ways that Math and Poetry Conn...
Sunday, September 30, 2012

The best of the many

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     Here I link to an article by David Alpaugh, "The New Math of Poetry," -- not brand-new, for it bears a date of February, 201...
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...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Found in Flatland

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Over the years I have shared with friends and students my copy of Edwin Abbott 's Flatland (first published in England in 1884) and, al...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Poems of set paradox and spatial dimension

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Universal Paradox      by Sandra DeLozier Coleman      One gigantic set made of all that there is      Boggles the mind with paradoxes. ...
Sunday, October 3, 2010

Art, poetry, and mathematics -- and Rafael Alberti

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On September 23 I was privileged to hear Annalisa Crannell , mathematics professor at Lancaster's Franklin and Marshall College, speak o...
Monday, August 30, 2010

What is the point? -- consider Euclid

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A two-line poem by Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda (1904-73), found in my bilingual edition of Extravagaria , reminded me of the poetic nature ...