Showing posts with label woman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label woman. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Celebrate Vera Rubin -- a WOMAN of science!

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     This morning's Washington Post carried an obituary of Vera Rubin ( 1928-2016),  a pioneering astronomer who confirmed the existenc...
Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Sex, Maths, and the Brain

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I found this poetry in an abstract (with a link posted at "Women in Maths" on Facebook ) for a lecture by Professor Gina Rippon e...
Saturday, March 7, 2015

The mathematician, she . . . .

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     Tomorrow, March 8, is the International Day of the Woman -- and I celebrate the day with mixed feelings.  YES, there are many women I ...
Saturday, June 14, 2014

Number theory is like poetry

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     Austrian-born Olga Taussky-Todd (1906-1995) was a noted and prolific mathematician who left her homeland for London in 1935 and moved ...
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Thursday, May 29, 2014

Phenomenal Woman

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Yesterday morning Maya Angelou (1928-2014) left us. But she has not left us alone.  Her voice is with us, cheering us to be more than we wer...
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

A poetry album by Lucille Clifton

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March is Women's History Month and here, today, I celebrate by acknowledging a special woman, Lucille Clifton (1936-2010).  From 1979–...
Sunday, March 3, 2013

A mathematician, a poet, a woman

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When I contacted University of Kansas mathematician Judith Roitman for permission to include her poem "Sixth Cosmogony" in this p...
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Monday, February 25, 2013

One of the best -- and a woman

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Women in mathematics have not been much-written-about.  This blog has made  a few corrective efforts and more are needed. Perhaps change is ...
Sunday, February 17, 2013

MathWoman Limericks

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My desk dictionary describes a limerick as a nonsense poem; my own experience has found these five-line rhymes to be more often bawdy than n...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

Tomorrow in San Diego -- Math Poetry Event

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If you are in San Diego tomorrow, I hope you will attend: A Reading of Poetry with Mathematics 5 – 7 PM    Friday, January 11, 2013 ...
Thursday, November 22, 2012

Thank you, Mary Gray

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For today, Thanksgiving, I have wanted to prepare a special poetic tribute and thank-you to mathematician Mary Gray .  I have had yet not fo...
Monday, September 3, 2012

An instrument in the shape of a woman

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     Celebrating math-women with poetry is a project to which I devoted several postings earlier this summer -- see, for example, these Ju...
Saturday, July 14, 2012

More of Hypatia -- brave, smart woman

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Poet and blogger Ellen Moody offers a lively and informative feature on poet Elizabeth Tollett (1694-1754) ; Tollett, too, wrote of forebe...
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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Seeking poems about math-women

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In this blog I have previously posted poems that speak of the lives of these math-women:      Sophie Germain (1776-1831)      Floren...
Monday, June 18, 2012

Sophie Germain dressed as a man to study math

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One of the fine sources for biographies and other topics in the history of mathematics is MacTutor History of Mathematics archive , hosted...
Monday, June 11, 2012

Think Like a Man

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     To publish mathematics,      a woman must learn to think      like a man, learn to write like      a man, to use only her      ini...
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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Celebrate Emmy Noether

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     On 23 March 1882 mathematician Emmy Noether (pronounced NER-ter) was born.  On 23 March 2010  I posted the first entry in this blog  --...
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, October 9, 2011

Counting the women

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     The stimulus for this posting appeared a few weeks ago in the Washington Post -- in an article that considers the loneliness of women...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Poetry of Logical Ideas

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When the NY Times failed to publish an obituary following the death of noted algebraist Amalie "Emmy" Noether , Albert Einstein c...
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