Thursday, April 29, 2010

A Numerical Poem (Fibonacci)

›
Consider the following poem involving the Fibonacci numbers:           1/89 = .0        +                   .01        +                   ...
2 comments:
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Poems starring mathematicians - 4

›
Each of today's poems is in the voice of a student who looks back.  First, from Carol Dorf, a poem to the author of a book--written as a...
Monday, April 26, 2010

Poems starring mathematicians - 3

›
Today's poems illustrate the satirical humor and rhyme that frequently inhabit poems by mathematicians. (Previous postings of poems abou...
Friday, April 23, 2010

Poems of Calculus

›
In her thoughtful poem " Calculus " mathematician-poet Sarah Glaz writes of sharing with her students some of their subject...
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...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

April -- Poetry, Math, and Boxing

›
April continues—both as National Poetry Month and as Mathematics Awareness Month (with theme math and sports ).  As in the April 9 posting...
Monday, April 19, 2010

Poems with Fibonacci number patterns

›
In 21st century poetry, there are a variety of non-rhyming forms--and several of them have derived from the Fibonacci numbers. *  The Danis...
5 comments:
Thursday, April 15, 2010

Poems starring mathematicians - 2

›
P ublished a century later than William Benjamin Smith's "The Merman and the Seraph" (see April 14 posting ) we have Crossing ...
2 comments:
Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Poems starring mathematicians - 1

›
This is the first in a series of postings involving poems in which the principal subject is a mathematician.      In “The Ideal Mathematic...
1 comment:
Monday, April 12, 2010

Poetry and Mathematics -- Similarities

›
HOW are mathematics and poetry similar? Often-quoted in mathematical circles are words from mathematician Karl Weierstrass (1815-97)...
2 comments:
Friday, April 9, 2010

April: along with baseball we celebrate poetry and mathematics

›
Is it coincidence or design that       April  is   National Poetry Month                          and    April  is  Mathematics Awaren...
5 comments:
Thursday, April 8, 2010

Braided lines form a PANTOUM

›
The pantoum is derived from a Malaysian form of interlocking four-line stanzas in which lines 2 and 4 of one stanza are used as lines 1 and...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

John Donne's numbers

›
       Perhaps best known for the religious themes in his poetry, John Donne (1572-1631) also wrote many love poems. Although the mathematic...
2 comments:
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Miroslav Holub, poet and scientist

›
Miroslav Holub (1923-1998), Czech poet and immunologist who excelled in both endeavors, is one of my favorite poets.  He combines scientif...
Monday, March 29, 2010

"Mathematical" Limericks

›
A dozen, a gross, and a score Plus three times the square root of four      Divided by seven      Plus five times eleven Is nine squared...
5 comments:
Sunday, March 28, 2010

W. H. Auden's Kingdom of Number

›
Some poetry is termed "mathematical" because mathematical terminology is included in the text of the poem, often to vivid effect. ...
3 comments:
Thursday, March 25, 2010

Queneau and the Oulipo

›
Raymond Queneau was one of the leaders of a group of ten--primarily writers and mathematicians, primarily French--who founded a group, ...
3 comments:
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Howard Nemerov's mathematical imagery

›
GETTING IT RIGHT IN LANGUAGE -- Poets and mathematicians alike are concerned with precise statement. Two-time US Poet Laureate Howard Nemero...
1 comment:
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Poetry of Logical Ideas

›
When the NY Times failed to publish an obituary following the death of noted algebraist Amalie "Emmy" Noether , Albert Einstein c...
3 comments: