Readers may find more poems about special people by scrolling through postings or by using a blog-SEARCH. Names available for SEARCH may be found in this document. And here is a link to a blog-SEARCH using the terms "math women".
Thursday, April 9, 2020
Celebrate the lives of MATH-WOMEN via POEMS!
Readers may find more poems about special people by scrolling through postings or by using a blog-SEARCH. Names available for SEARCH may be found in this document. And here is a link to a blog-SEARCH using the terms "math women".
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Write about a MATH-WOMAN -- and WIN!
Years ago -- when I was the only woman in the Bloomsburg University mathematics department -- I wrote a poem, "My Dance is Mathematics," about the mathematician Emmy Noether -- and it contained the following lines:
If a woman's dance is mathematics,
She dances alone.
But things are changing! Founded in 1971, AWM (Association for Women in Mathematics) has been actively celebrating the lives of female mathematicians -- and one of AWM's current and far-reaching activities is a STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST for which students -- in middle-school, high-school, and college categories -- are invited to interview a female mathematician and write about her. The essay-submission period is December 1, 2023 - February 1, 2024. Questions may be directed to AWM Essay Contest Organizer, Dr. Johanna Franklin (johanna.n.franklin@hofstra.edu).
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Name five!
A few words in closing:
14 Syllables
A hen lays eggs
one by one;
the way you
count life
is life.
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
The culture for women in math and the sciences
from Ordinary Women Scientists by Mary Alexandra Agner
for R.C.
leave the lab late, flasks washed and waiting,
computer on an overnight crunch job,
warm dinner in the microwave
while wondering at excited water molecules,
wave their kids goodnight, grateful
Thursday, August 29, 2019
Enrich Mathematics Classes with Poems
Here are links to poems that introduce the lives of four math-women:
Math Anxiety can be a hard topic for student or teacher to bring up -- but airing of views and healing might come from discussion. Poems to consider include:
Friday, March 29, 2019
Celebrate Karen Uhlenbeck, Abel Prize winner
Here (pulled from The New Yorker article also cited above) are some of Uhlenbeck's poetic words about women in mathematics:
It's really hard for me to describe
to people who are not somewhat near me in age
what it was like for women then ... and it was only
because of the women's movement and books like
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Honor Math-Women ...
Moon Duchin, a Tufts University professor who is using geometry to fight gerrymandering.
Cathy O'Neil, a data scientist (and blogger at mathbabe.org) whose recent book Weapons of Math Destruction helps readers to understand the roles (and threats) of big data in our society.
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
2012 posts -- titles and links
Dec 30 A chance encounter
Dec 28 Explorers
Dec 25 Support STREET SENSE
Dec 24 Star, shine bright!
Dec 21 Skating (with math) on Christmas
Monday, March 21, 2016
World Poetry Day -- Celebrate favorites!
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Saturday, July 14, 2012
More of Hypatia -- brave, smart woman
What cruel laws depress the female kind,
To humble cares and servile tasks confined!
In gilded toys their florid bloom to spend,
And empty glories that in age must end;
For amorous youth to spread the artful snares,
And by their triumphs to enlarge their cares.
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Seeking poems about math-women
send me yours (or those of others) --
write new ones; CELEBRATE women in mathematics:
Monday, March 7, 2022
International Day of the Woman -- 03-08-2022
Celebrate Math-Women with Poems
Throughout the history of mathematics, women have often been excluded or ignored. This is changing. I offer below some links to poems that herald math-women -- for you to enjoy and to share as we celebrate tomorrow -- "International Day of the Woman."
Celebrate Philippa Fawcett. Celebrate Sophie Germain.
Celebrate Grace Murray Hopper. Celebrate Katherine Johnson.
Celebrate Sophia Kovalevsky. Celebrate Ada Lovelace.
Celebrate Florence Nightingale. Celebrate Emmy Noether.
And, as your time permits, browse this blog -- or SEARCH -- to find more . . .
Thursday, July 1, 2021
Looking back . . . to previous posts . . .
BROWSE and ENJOY!
Back in January 2020 I gathered a list of titles of previous posts and posted it here at this link. And below I offer titles of postings -- with links -- since that time.
you are invited to explore the SEARCH feature in the right-hand column
OR to browse the list of Labels (also to the right) -- and click on ones that interest you.
Thursday, January 14, 2021
Bridges Math-Arts Conference 2021
Learn more here: http://bridgesmathart.org/ |
Since 2009, interested contributors from mathematics and various arts -- poetry, music, theater, visual art . . . -- have gathered at an annual Bridges conference to celebrate and deepen math-art connections. Due to Covid-19 the 2020 conference was virtual but so far, with hope, the 2021 conference is planned as an in-person conference in Finland. Connecticut mathematician Sarah Glaz has been active in coordinating poetry events for the conference and here is a link to her announcement of the poetry program at Bridges 2021 -- including links to biographical sketches and poems by each participating poet. My own poem therein honors mathematician Emmy Noether.
Here is a link to several postings in this blog that celebrate math women.
Monday, June 11, 2012
Think Like a Man
To publish mathematics,
a woman must learn to think
like a man, learn to write like
a man, to use only her
initials so reviewers
guess she's a man! Women must
masquerade, pretend man-think --
or can we build
new attitudes,
so all of us
have fair chances?! ("Square Attitudes" by JoAnne Growney)
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Poems starring mathematicians - 4
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Celebrate Math-Women with Poems!
March 8 is International Women's Day!
Monday, June 18, 2018
Choose the right LINE
The whole point of drawing is choosing the right line.
The online journal TalkingWriting has recently interviewed me
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Alice's Adventures in Numberland
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Math-women -- snowballing . . .
note a few of the (living) math-women I admire.
not great poetry nor fully recognizing many accomplishments--
look around you and notice the amazing math-women.