Showing posts with label triangle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label triangle. 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...
Sunday, December 6, 2015

This blog (then and now) and Pascal

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     When I began this blog in 2010, I imagined up to 100 postings -- I saw it as a way to share math-related poetry that I had written an...
Monday, November 2, 2015

Artificial Intelligence in the Library . . .

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     Libraries are wonderful places and library book sales are temptations impossible to resist -- and so, during a recent trip to Boston an...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Galileo in Florence

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Poetry found in the words of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642): "Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands cont...
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Saturday, December 20, 2014

The Girl Who Loved Triangles

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     I found this poem by Michigan poet Jackie Bartley when I was browsing old issues of  albatross (edited by Richard Smyth ) and she has...
Friday, May 16, 2014

Pound on poetry and mathematics

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HERE at PoetryFoundation.org we find an article by Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), published in POETRY Magazine in 1916, in which Sandburg of...
Sunday, April 20, 2014

Remembering Nina Cassian

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Exiled Romanian poet Nina Cassian (1924-2014) died last week in Manhattan.  Cassian was an outspoken poet whom I admired for her political...
Friday, May 3, 2013

Enough for everyone -- Russell Libby

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Are you looking for a poem on a particular math topic?  One search strategy is to go to the Poetry Foundation website (another is to click ...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Is Algebra Necessary?

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     Anticipating my interest, several friends sent me links to a late-July opinion piece in The New York Times entitled "Is Algebra ...
Monday, August 6, 2012

Spanish favorites

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One of my favorite DC-area poet-people is Yvette Neisser Moreno -- who, besides giving us her own work, is active in translation of  Spanis...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

The hypotenuse of an isosceles triangle

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Detroit poet, Philip Levine , has been selected as the new Poet Laureate of the United States. Selected by the librarian of Congress (Jame...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Found in Flatland

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Over the years I have shared with friends and students my copy of Edwin Abbott 's Flatland (first published in England in 1884) and, al...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Mathematics and race

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Sherman Alexie is a Spokane / Coeur d’Alene Indian from Wellpinit, Washington. Besides several collections of poetry, Alexie has published...
Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Varieties of triangles -- by Guillevic

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My introduction to French poet Guillevic (1909-97) came from UK poet Tim Love who found three of his triangle poems translated into Italia...
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Sunday, August 8, 2010

A poem of calculus (of ants on a worm)

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Philip Wexler  plays with the terminology of calculus in this poem:        The Calculus of Ants on a Worm      Swarming tiny      bodie...
Monday, May 10, 2010

Margaret Cavendish (1623-73) -- The Circle of the Brain cannot be Squared

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Margaret Cavendish (1623-73) was a writer who published under her own name at a time when most women published anonymously.  Her writing ad...