Showing posts with label theorem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label theorem. Show all posts
Monday, July 25, 2016

Homage to Godel

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From Erica Jolly , an Australian poet and online friend, I have learned of a fine anthology of science poems --  A Quark for Mister Mark:  1...
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Thursday, July 16, 2015

Celebrating Ada Lovelace

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Recently I have purchased the anthology, Raising Lilly Ledbetter:  Women Poets Occupying the Workplace (edited by Caroline Wright, M.L. Lyo...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

Math fun with song lyrics

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Song-writer Bill Calhoun is a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics at Pennsylvania's Bloom...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Excitement of Proving a Theorem

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Wow!  From first sighting, I have loved this description:        I prove a theorem and the house expands:        the windows jerk free to...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

Two cultures

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The opening poem of Uneasy Relations by mathematician-poet Michael Bartholomew-Biggs is concerned with similarities and differences between...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Split This Rock 2014

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     Plan now to attend the 4th national biennial Split This Rock Poetry Festiva l: Poems of Provocation & Witness in Washington, DC, Ma...
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Kaplansky sings Kaplansky (and Pi)

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     I first knew of mathematician Irving Kaplansky (1917-2006) through his monograph, Infinite Abelian Groups -- it was one of my texts f...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

What is not possible?

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     It is impossible for a number to be greater than 2 if it is not greater than 1.  It is impossible to find a rational number whose squar...
Monday, March 18, 2013

Power of a theorem

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My poetry-math colleague Sarah Glaz has sent me the following pantoum -- which she says was inspired by Ken Yee's pantoum posted in thi...
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Monday, December 26, 2011

A mathematical woman

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As in an earlier posting ( 20 December 2011 ), today's feature includes verse by Lord Byron (1788-1824). This time the source is Byron&...
Sunday, November 13, 2011

Portraits of a mathematician

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Ideas for this posting began with my post on  30 October 2011 in which I selected 7 favorite lines of poetry as a sort of self-portrait.  T...
Saturday, September 24, 2011

Mathematical theorems tornadoing

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This poem is fun!    Horse’s Adventure      by Jason Bredle      The horse discovered a gateway to another    dimension, and with noth...
Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Mathematicians at work

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     About her collecton, The Scottish Café ( Slapering Hol Press , 2002), Susan Case offers this note:      This series of poems is loose...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

Mathematicians are NOT entitled to arrogance

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Godfrey Harold “G. H.” Hardy (1877 – 1947) was an English mathematician known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analys...
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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Theorem-proof / Cut-up / poems

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     For mathematicians, reading a well-crafted proof that turns toward its conclusion with elegance and perhaps surprise -- this mirrors a...
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Excitement in mathematics classrooms

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Poems from three women illustrate a range of emotional content in the mathematics classroom:  Rita Dove's "Geometry" captures ...
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