Showing posts with label time. Show all posts
Showing posts with label time. Show all posts
Thursday, July 28, 2022

Looking back to an old poem -- "Expectations"

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      Years ago I wrote this poem -- recently I have rediscovered it and, once again, pondered the role of time in my life.  Here, from the ...
Monday, April 11, 2016

A Diagonal . . . and so little time . . .

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On my mind in recent days is the problem of "so little time."  About a year ago I posted a wonderful mathy poem by Californian Bre...
Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Balancing Opposites -- Tagore's Epigrams

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Many important mathematical ideas occur as pairs of opposites:          -2 and +2 (additive inverses) , 5 and 1/5 (multiplicative inverses)...
Thursday, March 26, 2015

The problem of time

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Californian Brenda Hillman is a poet whose work I like and admire.  In "Time Problem" she weaves prime numbers into a deft descri...
Monday, January 26, 2015

Poetry-math images; Expectation

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     Search engines are very useful in my search for mathy poets and poems.  Recently I have noticed that a link to images   has been offer...
Sunday, October 26, 2014

Dimensions of Discovery

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Along the one-dimensional straight line there are points and segments but no curves or squares. In the flat plane of two dimensions  t...
Monday, October 20, 2014

Martin Gardner collected poems

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     Last week the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) had a special program honoring Martin Gardner (1914-2010); tomorrow (October 21...
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Sunday, February 2, 2014

Forecasting snow and poetry

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Snowbound is that other world in which no schedules sit and no ambitions flare to interrupt the bluest sky and whitest field and coldest ...
Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Martin Gardner, again

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     This past weekend a review by Teller (magician of the Penn & Teller team) of an autobiography of Martin Gardner appeared in the ...
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Sonnet -- To Science

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Edgar Allan Poe's "Sonnet -- To Science" was the "Poem-A-Day" selection of poets.org last week on September 29.  Th...
Friday, June 7, 2013

A Man-Made Universe and "found" poems

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 Some poems are found rather than crafted. It's such fun -- can happen to anyone --  to be reading along and find a poem.       T...
Sunday, September 30, 2012

The best of the many

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     Here I link to an article by David Alpaugh, "The New Math of Poetry," -- not brand-new, for it bears a date of February, 201...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

Counting the seconds -- and leap seconds

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      Keeping time is a simple matter of counting -- counting seconds, summing them into minutes, hours, days. Or is it? Recent news has i...
Thursday, September 9, 2010

Grasping at TIME

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Different persons experience time differently -- as illustrated by the few lines included below (part II of  "Time" from my new co...
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