Showing posts with label square root. Show all posts
Showing posts with label square root. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

A mathy Haiku

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Found at the froth magazine website, this Haiku by Christopher Daniel Wallbank . Mathematics I, mathematics, One plus root five over 2...
Friday, November 14, 2014

Imaginary Number

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Last week (on November 6) I was invited to read some of my poems at the River Poets reading in Bloomsburg, PA ( where I lived and taught ...
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...
Saturday, August 31, 2013

A square-root of dead weight . . .

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     A poet  I love ( Seamus Heaney, 1939-2013 , 1995 Nobelist ) has died. The NYTimes obituary for Heaney quotes one of my favorites of hi...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

The magic of "i"

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  An exciting math event occurred last week -- the opening of MoMath ,  a Manhattan museum that makes math fun.   Still thinking about...
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Sunday, December 16, 2012

Imagine new numbers

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     As a child I wrote poems but abandoned the craft until many years later when I was a math professor; at that later time some of my poem...
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Friday, September 30, 2011

The square root of Everest

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Of the poets who frequently use mathematical ideas in their work, Howard Nemerov (1920-1991) is one of my favorites.  Recently, while brows...
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Monday, July 18, 2011

Finding a square root

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Here is an old poem (1849) by George Van Waters that offers instruction on finding a square root . This process was part of my junior high l...
Saturday, February 12, 2011

Loving a mathematician (Valentine's Day and . . . )

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A perfect way to celebrate Valentine's Day -- especially for you who enjoy mathematics --  read (aloud and to each other) some "p...
Monday, May 17, 2010

Sense and Nonsense

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     Nonsense verse has a prominent place in the poetry that mathematicians enjoy. Perhaps this is so because mathematical discovery itself...