Today I found a link to a recent article, "Matematica şi poezia," that considers commonalities among the arts and mathematics and, therein, mentions a poem by Nichita Stanescu (1933-1984) which Gabriel Prajitura and I have translated. The poem, "Poetic Mathematics," is dedicated to Romanian mathematician Solomon Marcus. Here is Gabi's and my translation:
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Monday, June 13, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Hikmet -- painting with numbers
Living is no laughing matter . . .
These are words of Turkish poet, playwright, novelist and memoirist Nazim Hikmet (1902-63), who spent much of his life in prison or exile for his political beliefs. In the following poem by Hikmet we see a portrait that builds from the numbers that characterize the landscape of Ibrahim Balaban's painting. As you read Hikmet's poem, consider the value of numbers in portraiture. Though they do not have the textures of color nor the movement of lines, numbers have shapes and edges that may much enrich our seeing.
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June Jordan,
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Mutlu Konuk,
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Randy Blasing,
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
Earth Day, 2011
My father, a farmer, was respectful of our earth's resources. Replenish what you take, he taught. But some of us consume without replacement as if the earth is infinite in its capacities.
When growth is exponential, we may not see its consequences before it is too late. (Have we already destroyed the balances of nature?) The following 8 x 8 syllable-square poem restates a oft-used math-textbook question -- and reminds us that little time may be left to solve environmental problems.
When growth is exponential, we may not see its consequences before it is too late. (Have we already destroyed the balances of nature?) The following 8 x 8 syllable-square poem restates a oft-used math-textbook question -- and reminds us that little time may be left to solve environmental problems.
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environment,
exponential growth,
JoAnne Growney,
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Monday, January 3, 2011
From 2010 -- titles and dates of posts
List of postings March 23 - December 31, 2010
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 . . .
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 . . .
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Poems starring mathematicians - 5
In my own library this next poem is found (untitled) in Collected Sonnets by Edna St Vincent Millay (1892-1950), but it also is found online at various sites. The first line of the sonnet, which announces Euclid as its subject, is well-known to most mathematicians; enjoy here all fourteeen lines.
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David St John,
Edna St. Vincent Millay,
equation,
Euclid,
mathematics,
number,
poetry
Thursday, April 22, 2010
A Square for Earth Day
Greetings on EARTH DAY. Earth's inhabitants today pay a price not only for our own careless habits but also for earlier ignorance about the fragility of our world. (As Garrett Hardin has said, "There is no away to throw to.") The April 20 edition of the Washington Post had an AP article about the risks of trash to wildlife in the Atlantic that provoked me to write the following square poem.
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