The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, with new issues coming twice a year, late in January and July, is a wonderful resource. Their latest issue (July 2018) was themed "Mathematics and Motherhood" and is an example of their wonderful support for expanding our images of mathematicians to recognize the vital contributions of women.
From that issue, here are opening stanzas of a poem by Nevada scientist and mathematician Marylesa Howard -- lines that offer a mathematical description of the constant adjustments of parenthood. Several decades ago, when I was a math professor and parent of young children, I needed to keep details of parenting away from my profession -- a divided life. I'm glad things are different now.
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Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Read your Math-Poetry in Baltimore, 1/18/19
You are invited be part of a reading of math-linked poetry
sponsored by the Journal
of Humanistic Mathematics and SIGMAA-ARTS
at the 2019 Joint
Mathematics Meetings (JMM)
Baltimore Convention Center Room 301
Friday, January 18, 2019 7 - 8:30 PM
Celebrate MATH PEOPLE with poems!
submit poetry (up to 3 poems, reading time up to 5 minutes)
and a 40-word bio in advance (by early November)
so you can be listed in our printed program. Early submissions are encouraged, by November 1 would be GREAT -- but submissions will be considered into mid or late November. Send submissions (and inquiries) to Gizem Karaali (gizem.karaali AT pomona.edu). Organizers of the event include JoAnne Growney, Gizem Karaali, Lawrence M. Lesser, and Douglas Norton.
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Mathematics and Motherhood
The latest issue of the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics focuses on the theme "Mathematics and Motherhood" -- go here to explore the Table of Contents. In that issue is my poem "Wondering" - found here.
Thank you, Mark Huber and Gizem Karaali,
for your editorship of this fine publication.
Friday, April 13, 2018
Interview with mathy poets . . .
Philadelphia mathematician and poet Marion Cohen has worked with Sundress Publications to prepare an interview offering MATH-POETRY viewpoints from three other mathematician-poets and herself -- including me and Sarah Glaz, recently retired in the mathematics department at the University of Connecticut, and Gizem Karaali, in the mathematics department at Pomona College. All of these math-women have numerous books, articles, and so on -- and I invite you to follow the links associated with their names and also to go here to read the Sundress interview (which does, at the end, include several poems).
Each of these math-poetry women has been featured often in this blog -- and, in addition to reading the interview, I urge you to click on their names to explore these links: Marion Cohen Sarah Glaz Gizem Karaali
I close with a link to an article of mine, "Mathematics in Poetry, " published by the MAA a bit more than ten years ago -- an easy read that has generated some recent attention.
Each of these math-poetry women has been featured often in this blog -- and, in addition to reading the interview, I urge you to click on their names to explore these links: Marion Cohen Sarah Glaz Gizem Karaali
I close with a link to an article of mine, "Mathematics in Poetry, " published by the MAA a bit more than ten years ago -- an easy read that has generated some recent attention.
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
They Say She Was Good -- for a Woman
Regulars to this blog know of my appreciation and support for the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics -- an online journal that publishes poetry and fiction as well as articles that link the arts with mathematics. Bravo to editors Gizem Karaali and Mark Huber -- a new issue (Vol. 7, Issue 2) has come online today.
I am honored to announce that my article, "They Say She Was Good -- for a Woman," -- a collection of poems and musings about women in mathematics (and featuring a poem about Emmy Noether) -- is part of the current issue.
Other key items in this issue of JHM that I have already found time to enjoy include a visual poem of geometry and numbers by Sara Katz, a collection of poems about "infinity" by Pam Lewis, a review of poetry anthologies by Robin Chapman, a call (deadline, 11/1/17) for "mathematical" Haiku; a call (deadline 1/1/2018) for papers on mathematics and motherhood. Go to the Table of Contents and enjoy it ALL.
I am honored to announce that my article, "They Say She Was Good -- for a Woman," -- a collection of poems and musings about women in mathematics (and featuring a poem about Emmy Noether) -- is part of the current issue.
Monday, November 28, 2016
Celebrate MATH-POETRY at JMM (1-5-17) in Atlanta
Repeating what has become an annual tradition, the Joint Mathematics Meetings of 2017 in Atlanta will include a poetry reading.
Thursday January 5, 2017, 5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Regency Ballroom VII, Ballroom Level, Hyatt Regency
Here is info about the reading and how to participate: Poetry + Math, organized by Gizem Karaali, Pomona College; Lawrence M. Lesser, University of Texas at El Paso; and Douglas Norton, Villanova University; Thursday, January 5, 5:30–7:00 pm. All who are interested in mathematical poetry and/or mathematical art are invited. Though we do not discourage last-minute decisions to participate, we invite and encourage poets to submit poetry (no more than three poems, no longer than five minutes) and a bio in advance—and, as a result, be listed on our printed program. Inquiries and submissions (by December 15, 2016) may be made to Gizem Karaali (gizem.karaali@pomona.edu). Sponsors for this event are the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics and SIGMAA ARTS. A complete program for the Mathematics Meetings is available here.
Regency Ballroom VII, Ballroom Level, Hyatt Regency
Friday, September 9, 2016
Division by Zero
At Victoria University in Melbourne, novelist, playwright and poet Tom Petsinis also teaches mathematics. He participated in the 2016 Bridges Math-Arts Conference in Finland this summer: here are two of his poems from the 2016 Bridges Poetry Anthology -- and each of them plays with mathematical ideas in new and thoughtful (sometimes amusing) ways. "Zeno's Paradox" follows this initial poem. (Names and links for other anthology poets are given below.)
Division by Zero by Tom Petsinis
She could’ve been our grandmother
Warning us of poisonous mushrooms ‒
To stress her point she'd scratch
The taboo bold with crimson chalk.
It should never be used to divide,
Or we'd be howled from lined yard
To pit where cruel paradoxes ruled.
Her warnings tempted us even more:
Young, growing full in confidence,
We’d prove the impossible for fun ‒
Nothing she said could restrain us
From showing two is equal to one.
Division by Zero by Tom Petsinis
She could’ve been our grandmother
Warning us of poisonous mushrooms ‒
To stress her point she'd scratch
The taboo bold with crimson chalk.
It should never be used to divide,
Or we'd be howled from lined yard
To pit where cruel paradoxes ruled.
Her warnings tempted us even more:
Young, growing full in confidence,
We’d prove the impossible for fun ‒
Nothing she said could restrain us
From showing two is equal to one.
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Thursday, August 25, 2016
Numbers and Faces - poem, anthology
"Numbers and Faces" is the title of a poem by W. H. Auden that ends with these lines:
True, between faces almost any number
Might come in handy, and One is always real;
But which could any face call good, for calling
Infinity a number does not make it one.
"Numbers and Faces" is also the title of a small anthology of poems, published in 2001 and containing Auden's poem, that I collected and edited for the Humanistic Mathematics Network. The anthology has been out of print for many years but a file with its mathy poems is available online here.
The Humanistic Mathematics Network (started around 1987 by Alvin White) had a Newsletter and then a Journal but these paper publications faded away around 2004. The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics emerged in 2011 to fill the void. Recently I have learned from JHM editor Gizem Karaali, that an online archive of the prior publications is available here. (Using the search box, I was able to find several of my own years-ago articles, including one from 1994 entitled "Mathematics in Literature and Poetry.")
True, between faces almost any number
Might come in handy, and One is always real;
But which could any face call good, for calling
Infinity a number does not make it one.
The complete poem is posted here.
"Numbers and Faces" is also the title of a small anthology of poems, published in 2001 and containing Auden's poem, that I collected and edited for the Humanistic Mathematics Network. The anthology has been out of print for many years but a file with its mathy poems is available online here.
The Humanistic Mathematics Network (started around 1987 by Alvin White) had a Newsletter and then a Journal but these paper publications faded away around 2004. The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics emerged in 2011 to fill the void. Recently I have learned from JHM editor Gizem Karaali, that an online archive of the prior publications is available here. (Using the search box, I was able to find several of my own years-ago articles, including one from 1994 entitled "Mathematics in Literature and Poetry.")
Thursday, August 4, 2016
POETRY -- in the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
Pomona College mathematician Gizem Karaali, one of the editors of the online Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, is also a poet. And the journal conscientiously features links between mathematics and the literary arts.
The current issue (online since late July) features my review of Madhur Anand's vibrant new collection, A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes (Penguin Random House, 2015) and these poems:
The current issue (online since late July) features my review of Madhur Anand's vibrant new collection, A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes (Penguin Random House, 2015) and these poems:
"The Greatest Integer Function" by Alanna Rae,
"Quantitative Literacy" by Thomas L. Moore,
"Menger Sponge" by E. Laura Golberg,
"Calculus Problems" by Joshua N. Cooper, and
"An Exercise on Limits" by Manya Raman-Sundström.
Friday, October 23, 2015
JMM Seattle, 1-7-16 -- Poetry+Math+Art
Read your mathy poems in Seattle!
An invitation to participate -- in January! Read on!
ANNOUNCING Poetry + Art + Math
January 7, 2016, Thursday, 5:30 pm–7:00 pm.
Room 608, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle
At the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) organized by Gizem Karaali, Pomona College;
Lawrence M. Lesser, University of Texas at El Paso; and Douglas Norton, Villanova University.
Thursday, October 23, 2014
ABC of statistics
Songwriter Larry Lesser is a co-organizer (with Gizem Karaali) of a poetry-with-mathematics reading at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Antonio next January. And sometimes Lesser writes poetry. He has told me that his poem below was in response to an abecedarian poem in a 2006 paper of mine, "Mathematics of Poetry" published in the online journal JOMA -- and available here.
Statistic Acrostic by Lawrence Mark Lesser and Dennis K. Pearl
A
Better
Confidence:
Data.
Expectations
Fit
Good.
Statistic Acrostic by Lawrence Mark Lesser and Dennis K. Pearl
A
Better
Confidence:
Data.
Expectations
Fit
Good.
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Poetry Reading 1-11-15 at JMM in San Antonio
at the 2015 Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM)
Although last-minute decisions to participate are possible -- you may simply show up and sign up to read -- we invite and encourage poets to submit poetry (≤ 3 poems, ≤ 5 minutes) and a bio in advance, and, as a result, be listed on our printed program. Inquiries and submissions (by December 1, 2014) may be made to Gizem Karaali (gizem.karaali@pomona.edu).
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Journal of Math in the Arts features Poetry
A special issue of the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts entitled "Poetry and Mathematics" is now available online at this link. An introduction by guest editor Sarah Glaz is available (for free download) here. In this opening piece, one of the items that Glaz includes is her own translation of a math-puzzle poem from Bhaskara's (1114-1185) Lilavati that is charming. I offer it here:
Ten times the square root of a flock
of geese, seeing the clouds collect,
flew towards lake Manasa, one-eighth
took off for the Sthalapadmini forest.
But unconcerned, three couples frolicked
in the water amongst a multitude of
lotus flowers. Please tell, sweet girl,
how many geese were in the flock.
Ten times the square root of a flock
of geese, seeing the clouds collect,
flew towards lake Manasa, one-eighth
took off for the Sthalapadmini forest.
But unconcerned, three couples frolicked
in the water amongst a multitude of
lotus flowers. Please tell, sweet girl,
how many geese were in the flock.
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Poetry in Math Journals
The Mathematical Intelligencer (publisher of the poem by Gizem Karaali given below) and the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics (an online, open-access journal edited by Mark Huber and Gizem Karaali) are periodicals that include math-related poetry in each issue. For example, in the most recent issue of JHM, we have these titles:
Articles:
Joining the mathematician's delirium to the poet's logic'': Mathematical Literature and Literary Mathematics by Rita Capezzi and Christine Kinsey
How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways for Syllabic Variation in Certain Poetic Forms by Mike Pinter
Poems:
And here, from Gizem Karaali, is a poetic view of the process of mathematical discovery: the blank white page, the muddy flow of thoughts, the clarity that eventually (sometimes) blooms:
Articles:
Joining the mathematician's delirium to the poet's logic'': Mathematical Literature and Literary Mathematics by Rita Capezzi and Christine Kinsey
How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways for Syllabic Variation in Certain Poetic Forms by Mike Pinter
Poems:
Computational Compulsions by Martin Cohen
Jeffery's Equation by Sandra J. Stein
The Math of Achilles by Geoffrey A. Landis
And here, from Gizem Karaali, is a poetic view of the process of mathematical discovery: the blank white page, the muddy flow of thoughts, the clarity that eventually (sometimes) blooms:
Sunday, May 25, 2014
How many grains of sand?
Recently one of my friends used "all the grains of sand" as an example of an infinite set "because it is impossible to count them all" and -- even as I rejected his answer -- I wondered how many of my other friends might agree with it. In the following poem, mathematician Pedro Poitevin considers a similar question as he reflects on the countability of the birds in the night sky.
Divertimentum Ornithologicum by Pedro Poitevin
After Jorge Luis Borges's Argumentum Ornithologicum.
A synchrony of wings across the sky
is quavering its feathered beats of flight.
Their number is too high to count -- I try
Divertimentum Ornithologicum by Pedro Poitevin
After Jorge Luis Borges's Argumentum Ornithologicum.
A synchrony of wings across the sky
is quavering its feathered beats of flight.
Their number is too high to count -- I try
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Poetry-with-math, Jan 17, Baltimore
Please join us!
A Reading of Poetry with Mathematics
Friday, January 17, 2014 4:30 - 6:30 PM
Room 308 Baltimore Convention Center
Room 308 Baltimore Convention Center
Sunrise gives
each of us
a shadow.
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Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Poetry-with-math in Baltimore -- 17 Jan 2014
At the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore (January 15-18, 2014), the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics (under the leadership of editors Mark Huber and Gizem Karaali) will sponsor a poetry reading. Mark your calendar now! (And be sure to scroll down past the reading announcement to poems from last year's JHM reading in San Diego by poets Katie Manning and Karen Morgan Ivy.)
Friday, January 17, 2014. 4:30 - 6:30 PM
Room 308 Baltimore Convention Center
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Poetry at JMM -- groups, etc.
A math-poetry reading on January 11 at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego -- organized by Gizem Karaali (an editor of the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics) and Sue VanHattum (blogger at Math Mama Writes) -- has been featured in Evelyn Lamb's Scientific American blog.
Sandra DeLozier Coleman is a retired mathematics professor who has for many years written poems that relate to math. Her poem (presented below) about the definition of a mathematical group was featured in the Scientific American blog. When DeLozier read the poem in San Diego, her introduction to it included these words: "I’m
poking a bit of fun at the futility of expecting a mathematician to
explain a math concept, as familiar to him as his name, in language even
a first week student will understand. Here the voice is of an Abstract
Algebra professor who is attempting to explain what makes a set a group
in rigorous rhyme!"
Next year's JMM will be in Baltimore, MD during January 15-18, 2014.
There will be a poetry reading -- details will be posted here when they're available.
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closure,
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identity,
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Thursday, January 10, 2013
Tomorrow in San Diego -- Math Poetry Event
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
Room 3, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center San Diego, CA
sponsored by the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
sponsored by the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
at the Joint Mathematics Meetings
Poetry reading organizers are Mark Huber, Gizem Karaali, and Sue VanHattum
with selected poems from that reading at this link.
If I were able to attend, I would beg the other poets there to write and publish poems about women mathematicians. And I would read this example (a revision of a poem first posted in June 2012).
With Reason: A Portrait by JoAnne Growney
Sophia Kovalevsky * (1850-1891)
With Reason: A Portrait by JoAnne Growney
Sophia Kovalevsky * (1850-1891)
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Seeking math-poets -- JMM, SanDiego 1-11-13
Call for Readers:
The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics will host a reading of poetry-with-mathematics at the annual Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) on Friday, January 11, 5 - 7 PM in Room 3, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center. If you wish to attend the reading and participate, please send, by December 1, 2012 (via e-mail, to Gizem Karaali (gizem.karaali@pomona.edu)) up to 3 poems that involve mathematics (in content or structure, or both) -- no more than 3 pages -- and a 25 word bio.
The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics will host a reading of poetry-with-mathematics at the annual Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) on Friday, January 11, 5 - 7 PM in Room 3, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center. If you wish to attend the reading and participate, please send, by December 1, 2012 (via e-mail, to Gizem Karaali (gizem.karaali@pomona.edu)) up to 3 poems that involve mathematics (in content or structure, or both) -- no more than 3 pages -- and a 25 word bio.
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