Showing posts with label tangent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tangent. Show all posts
Thursday, May 2, 2024

Wordsmith theme -- words from Geometry

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      A delightful stimulus to expand my vocabulary is my subscription to "A.Word.A,Day" by Anu Garg -- and each Monday-through-Fr...
Friday, March 13, 2015

Three Greguerías

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From Portugal, from Francisco -- who emailed me the gift of these lines: Three Greguerías   by Rámon Gómez de la Serna (1888-1963)   ...
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Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Love mathematics!

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In the stanzas below, I have some fun with math terminology.  Hope you'll enjoy it too.        Love!         by JoAnne Growney      ...
Friday, October 18, 2013

Mathematics of love . . .

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"Mathematics of Love" is the title poem of a collection by John Edwin Cohen (1941-2012), published in 2011 by Anaphora Literary P...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

Hyperbolic effects

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Last month I went to the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History -- for a photo scroll down to t...
Friday, October 15, 2010

Voices in a Geometry Classroom

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I have been invited to return next week ( October 20 at 7 PM ) to Bloomsburg University, where I taught mathematics for lots of years, for a...
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Monday, September 27, 2010

Ideal Geometry -- complex politics

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Christopher Morley (1890-1957) was an American poet, novelist, and publisher who was the son of a poet and musician (Lilian Janet Bird) and...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Miroslav Holub, poet and scientist

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Miroslav Holub (1923-1998), Czech poet and immunologist who excelled in both endeavors, is one of my favorite poets.  He combines scientif...