(Thanks, Mike -- from JoAnne Growney -- for permission to post.)
Monday, August 5, 2019
A visual poem -- Decision tree
(Thanks, Mike -- from JoAnne Growney -- for permission to post.)
Monday, June 25, 2018
Visual, Poetical -- Mathematical Impressions
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Daughter and Father - a warm geometry . . .
Don't Mistake Your Mirror for a Window on the World by Ken Stange
Consider your daughter's first smile.
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Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Opening our minds to New Views . . .
From visual poet Karl Kempton (who celebrates a birthday today) I offer a visual-poetry reminder of multiple ways of viewing a situation -- illustrated by two views of dividing the number 8.
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Out of Nothing -- A Strange New Universe
Page 1 of 3 -- the entire poem is found here at VisualVerse.org. |
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
From a poetic artist -- "New Math"
Neha Misra, one of my neighbors (in Eastern Village cohousing in Silver Spring, Maryland) is both a poet and a visual artist; in a recent conversation, I asked Neha if she had any mathy poems -- and she volunteered the following lines-- full of rich mathematical terminology paired with multiple -- and thoughtful -- meanings. Thank you, Neha!
New Math by Neha Misra
Because I once scored 49 out of 50
in a Mathematical Physics exam
that I was so proud of, still am.
I do not remember much of
signs of sines and cosines.
I remember the differential equations
were all fine, but I was in love
with the curves of integration—
Because I once taught a scared young boy
in the confident body of a man
to not let his exponential fear of math
come in the way of his waking dreams
of flying with numbers.
Paper and pen in our hands,
together we melted his fear of math
into the heart of zero
and he flew
far far far away from me
on the infinite new wings of those numbers—
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
The epitome -- Euler's Identity
epitome
epitome
epitome
epi+ome
epItome
_____________
epit0me
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Blog history -- title, links for previous posts . . .
Scroll through the titles below, browsing to find items of interest
among the more-than-nine-hundred postings since March 2010
OR
Click on any label -- a list is found in the right-hand column below the author profile
OR
Enter term(s) in the SEARCH box -- and find all posts containing those terms.
For example, here is a link to the results of a SEARCH using math women
And here is a link to a poem by Brian McCabe that celebrates math-woman Sophie Germain.
This link reaches a poem by Joan Cannon that laments her math-anxiety.
This poem expresses some of my own divided feelings.
Monday, April 3, 2017
Math-Stat Awareness Month -- find a poem!
AND
National Poetry Month!
Celebrate with a MATHY POEM, found here in this blog! Scroll down!
Mar 28 Split this Rock, Freedom Plow Award, April 21
Mar 27 Math-themed poems at Poets.org
Mar 23 Remember Emmy Noether!
Thursday, September 22, 2022
Math-Poetry Recordings on YouTube
The arrival in 2020 of COVID caused a huge number of gatherings to take place online -- including mathematics conferences and poetry readings- -- and performances at many of these special events have been recorded on YouTube. I offer below a few links to recordings and to further information. Recording myself reading poems would probably not been one of my chosen activities but mathematician-poet Sarah Glaz, who has been an enthusiastic organizer of poetry events for the BRIDGES Math-Arts Conferences, has requested recorded samples from each participating poet.
One way to start YouTube math-poetry explorations is to go to this link -- a link I found by searching for "poetry math" on YouTube. In this blog, we have mentioned YouTube a bit in the past -- and the blog's SEARCH feature finds this list of previous postings that feature YouTube links.
Monday, August 26, 2013
Celebrating a math-woman
When you find one (or create one) I will be glad to have you send it along.
The lunar crater L Herschel is named for astronomer Caroline Lucretia Herschel (1750-1848) -- and I have celebrated this math-woman earlier with two fine poems: "Letter from Caroline Herschel" by Siv Cedering , and "Planetarium" by Adrienne Rich. Now Herschel is the focus of a forthcoming book by poet Laura Long, The Eye of Caroline Herschel: A Life in Poems, (Finishing Line Press, 2013). Here, from that collection, is "The Taste of Mathematics: Caroline Herschel at 31" -- this poem also appears, along with a note about the full collection, in the July 2013 issue of The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
A Numerical Poem (Fibonacci)
Monday, November 8, 2010
One type of "mathematical" poetry
Monday, August 23, 2021
Opposites Attract
Poems by visual poet Karl Kempton are always fascinating and often mathy. Here, from Kempton's collection, poems about something and nothing (Paper Press, 2015) is one of my favorites:
zero
the mirror
oblivion holds
wearing the mask
of infinity
Here is a link to Kempton's collection 3-CUBED: MATHEMATICAL POEMS 1975-2003.
And here is a link to previous presentations of Kempton's work in this blog.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
In the same family -- a poet and a mathematician
Monday, January 3, 2011
From 2010 -- titles and dates of posts
A scroll through the 12 months of titles below may lead you to topics and poets/poems of interest. Also helpful may be the SEARCH box at the top of the right-hand column; there you may enter names or terms that you would like to find herein.
Dec 31 The year ends -- and we go on . . .
Dec 30 Mathematicians are NOT entitled to arrogance
Dec 28 Teaching Numbers
Dec 26 Where are the Women?
Dec 21 A Square for the Season
Dec 20 "M" is for Mathematics and . . .
Monday, July 9, 2018
What does MEAN mean?
These diagrams are part of a paper by L.M. Lesser found here. |
Saturday, July 25, 2015
Math and Poetry and Climate
No Two Things Can Be More Equal by Madhur Anand
In undergrad I learned about the identity
matrix. Ones on the main diagonal and zeros
elsewhere. Anything multiplied by it is itself.
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
MAA Math Values Blog values poetry!
I am a long-time member of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) -- an organization (with administrative offices in Washington, DC) whose mission is "to advance the understanding of mathematics and its impact on our world." The MAA website states:
Our members include university, college, middle, and high school mathematics faculty; graduate and undergraduate students; pure and applied mathematicians; computer scientists; statisticians; and many others in government, business, and industry. We welcome all who are interested in the mathematical sciences.
An important feature on the MAA website is their Math Values blog -- which has frequent postings from diverse voices within mathematics; these postings include important mathematical information and also math's connections to the larger world -- including teaching and learning, the arts, practical math-applications . . .and more . . .
Recently in the Math Values blog I came across this posting (from June 2023) by Czech poet and artist Radoslav Rochallyi of what he calls VECTOR poetry; here is a screen-shot of a sample -- a poem developed from the phrase: “Time is pouring out of my broken watch glass. You look ahead, and you're right. Because the potential of the past is just … a sandcastle.”
Friday, April 30, 2021
Polyform Puzzles -- presented in verse
Many math-loving folks gather periodically at meetings called G4G (Gatherings for Gardner) to celebrate the life and contributions of Martin Gardner (1914-2010) -- a versatile author whom I know best from his "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American -- a column that often connected math and poetry.
Here is a link to the YouTube channel for G4G Celebrations -- a place to view presentations of ideas that honor the spirit of Martin Gardner. For one of the recent meetings of G4G (online due to Covid), graphic artist and designer of recreational mathematics puzzles, Kate Jones, offered a visual and poetic presentation entitled A Periodic Table of polyform puzzles.
This is the 3rd slide of Jones' presentation, "A Periodic Table of polyform puzzles" |
This link leads to a pdf of the 29 slides of Jones' presentation and this link leads to a 24-minute PowerPoint recording of the production; eventually this event will be available on the YouTube Channel noted above. Jones describes this creation in this way: It’s like a very condensed book on the subject; using rhymed couplets allowed for even more compact delivery of the information. She adds: at the gamepuzzles website, the various individual items in the puzzles can be seen more simply.
Here is a link to an earlier posting in this blog that includes a Fibonacci poem by Jones -- created for the 2016 meeting of G4G.