Showing posts with label women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women. Show all posts
Thursday, April 21, 2016

Women in Mathematics Count!

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     The theme for 2016 Mathematics Awareness Month is "The Future of Prediction."  And today I am wondering what date can be p...
Monday, September 28, 2015

A subtraction problem

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Let's solve this subtraction problem:                     Women do the job             minus    the recognition.                  ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

The culture for women in math and the sciences

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Perhaps the phrase "ordinary" women scientists is an oxymoron -- but it should not be.  Women should be free to populate the full...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Found poetry -- Mary Cartwright

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Recently I have been reading about mathematician Mary Cartwright (1900-1998) and working to develop a poem about her -- relying on a fine a...
Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Square stanzas for Women in Maths

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Women in Maths -- it all adds up.      Go here for "It All Adds Up" -- a story in plus Magazine by Rachel Thomas ...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Math, Magic, Mystery -- and so few women

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Today, April 30, is the final day of Mathematics Awareness Month 2014 ; this year's theme has been "Mathematics, Magic and Mystery&...
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 ...
Thursday, February 14, 2013

One Billion Rising

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Below I repeat a syllable-square first posted on 18 August 2010 and included in  Red Has No Reason .  Today, Valentine's Day, stand up ...
Thursday, November 29, 2012

Bold women count

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Last evening at a poetry reading at Kensington Row Bookshop , I read my poem about Sophia Kovalevsky ( posted on June 24 ); hearing it out l...
Friday, November 23, 2012

Women Scientists in America

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That one, Mary Gray ,  is bold, mathematical, and female.  One of the founders (one-nine-seven-one) of the Association for ...
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Monday, November 12, 2012

Finding fault with a sphere . . .

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     On November 9 I had the pleasure (hosted by Irina Mitrea and Maria Lorenz ) of talking (" Thirteen Ways that Math and Poetry Conn...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Teaching math (?maths) is complex

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     In the midst of a teaching career in Bloomsburg University I spent a year in an administrative position -- the school needed time to se...
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...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

SHE can solve any equation!

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Today's New York Times offers a tribute to Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus , a professor emerita of physics and engineering at MIT.  The T...
Friday, June 15, 2012

Can mathematics maximize happiness?

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     My post for last Monday ( 11 June 2012 ) offered a link I would like to repeat :  to an article by Judy Green , " How Many Wome...
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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Saturday, February 18, 2012

Langston Hughes could do anything!

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In the 1970s when I was a new professor (at Pennsylvania's Bloomsburg University), a particular colleague and I would chat occasionally ...
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Is Math for Women?

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At a River Poets reading at the public library in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania on December 1, 2011, Carol Ann Heckman surprised me with her poe...
Sunday, December 26, 2010

Where are the Women?

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Here is a small  square poem about a paradox that's been on my mind recently.                Little Women                In school,...
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