Showing posts with label translation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label translation. Show all posts
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 ...
Friday, April 3, 2015

Mathematics and poetry -- are the same ! ! !

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Last week the Art Works Blog posted an interview with mathematician, poet, and translator, Enriqueta Carrington .  You will want to follow ...
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Friday, April 18, 2014

Poetry of Romania - Nora School, Apr 24

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     During several summers teaching conversational English to middle-school students in Deva, Romania, I became acquainted with the work of...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

Iceland -- poetry, stones

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British translator and editor David McDuff blogs at " Nordic Voices in Print " -- a site that he uses as "a way of making so...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

A poet (math-daughter) speaks of math's beauty

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I met Minnesota poet Roseann Lloyd when we served together on an AWP (Associated Writing Programs) conference panel on translation several ...
Monday, February 4, 2013

Problems of Translation

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     June Jordan's poem "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language" ( found at PoetryFoundation.org ) uses numbers and mea...
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 -- ...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Taking Stock

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Developing an inventory -- of what we have or have experienced, of what we see or imagine -- inevitably involves numbers and counting.  As i...
Saturday, March 17, 2012

Illness and Time -- Counting on

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One of life's special opportunities came to me ten years ago in Bucharest when I had the opportunity to meet poet Ileana Mălăncioiu an...
Monday, January 31, 2011

Romanian poets -- Cassian and Barbu

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Born in 1924, in Galati, Romania, Nina Cassian has published over fifty books -- besides poetry, she has works of fiction and books for chi...
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Creation from "nothing"

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     Christian Otto Josef Wolfgang Morgenstern (1871-1914) was a German writer whose poetry often involved paradox or nonsense and whose wi...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Poets who Count

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For some poets, counting is part of the language of the poem. For others, counting determines the structure. Here are two poems of the forme...
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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...