Showing posts with label sphere. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sphere. Show all posts
Friday, January 8, 2016

The world is round . . . or flat!

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British poet Wendy Cope frequently includes edgy humor in her poems ( s he is, indeed, a prizewinner in light verse ) -- and I like that. ...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

The magic of mathematics (in art)

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     Australian teacher and  poet Erica Jolly is convinced that breaking down the barriers that make silos of sciences and humanities subj...
Friday, May 16, 2014

Pound on poetry and mathematics

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HERE at PoetryFoundation.org we find an article by Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), published in POETRY Magazine in 1916, in which Sandburg of...
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, 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...
Monday, August 8, 2011

Can a mathematician see red?

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Held late in July, this year's 2011 Bridges (Math-Arts) Conference in Coimbra, Portugal included a poetry reading for which I'd be...
Friday, December 31, 2010

The year ends -- and we go on . . .

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Immortal Helix      by Archibald MacLeish    (1892-1982) HEREUNDER Jacob Schmidt who, man and bones, Has been his hundred times around th...