Showing posts with label symmetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label symmetry. Show all posts
Sunday, January 31, 2016

A sonnet for Napoleon's Theorem

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     In geometry, Napoleon's theorem ( often attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769–1821) states that if equilateral triangles are cons...
Friday, September 18, 2015

Words of Ada Lovelace

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The se po etic words of Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) -- concerning translation of mathematical principles into practical forms -- I found here ...
Sunday, December 28, 2014

A Fractal Poem

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    A fractal is an object that displays self-similarity -- roughly, this means that the parts have the same shape as the whole -- as in th...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

From order to chaos -- a sonnet

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Fractals    by Diana Der-Hovanessian                               Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare                                ...
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Saturday, November 10, 2012

Symmetry in poetry

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In Euclidean Geometry, objects retain their size and shape during rigid motions (also called symmetries ); one of these is translation -- ...
Sunday, November 14, 2010

Symmetric stanza

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Although the following stanza by mathematician-author  Lewis Carroll  first appears to be a merely melodramatic example of Victorian verse, ...
Monday, November 8, 2010

One type of "mathematical" poetry

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When I began (in the 1980s) collecting examples of "mathematical poetry," I sought lines of verse that included some mathematical ...
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