Showing posts with label sum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sum. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Shaping sentences with Fibonacci numbers . . .

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Counting words . . ..        1                 One      1                person      2                with courage      3              ...
Saturday, July 12, 2014

Prove It

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After observing that                1  =  1 and         1 + 3  =  4 and         1 + 3 + 5  =  9 and         1 + 3 + 5 + 7  =  16 and  ...
Friday, June 27, 2014

Of all geometries, feathery is best . . .

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The title for this post comes from Twinzilla ( The Word Works , 2014), by Charleston poet Barbara Hagerty .  The title character of this co...
Sunday, October 6, 2013

Measuring the World . . .

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     Yesterday afternoon, at the Goethe Institut in Washington DC , I saw a wonderful film, " Measuring the World ." Based on a po...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Emily Dickinson

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     Although I do not consider any of Emily Dickinson's poems "mathematical," I find that she does not shy from using the te...
Friday, August 10, 2012

Summing thin slices

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This poem by recent (2008-2010) poet laureate Kay Ryan at first made me think of calculus, of integration, summing all the thin slices to f...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

A whole and its parts

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     Aristotle may have been the first to assert that a whole is more than the sum of its parts .  Mathematics textbooks are likely to say ...
Monday, May 16, 2011

Which is the BEST order?

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At Bartleby.com , we find  a quote from Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) which says, in part " ... poetry—the best words in their b...
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Saturday, January 22, 2011

Integrals -- a poem

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Integrals      by Jonathan Holden      Erect, arched in disdain, the integrals drift from left across white windless pages to the right...
Monday, October 4, 2010

"The Reckoning" by M. Sorescu (Romania,1936-96)

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Works by poet and playwright   Marin Sorescu (1936-1996) continue to be popular with Romanian readers--and he is one of the most-frequently...
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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Mathematics in poetry by Nichita Stanescu

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     Though formerly a math professor, my recent teaching has involved poetry--and I have been fortunate to spend several summer months at S...
Friday, July 9, 2010

Jordie Albiston -- structure behind the writing

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       I love sonnets and the one below by Jordie Albiston is a favorite of mine.      Albiston is an Australian poet with a sense of orc...
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Glances at Infinity

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Counter-intuitive notions are among my favorite parts of mathematics and, in considerations of infinity, these are numerous.  Recalling Zeno...
Thursday, April 29, 2010

A Numerical Poem (Fibonacci)

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Consider the following poem involving the Fibonacci numbers:           1/89 = .0        +                   .01        +                   ...
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