Thursday, April 28, 2016

Talking-Writing offers Math Poems

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     In recent weeks, the online journal Talking-Writing has been featuring math poems and last Monday they posted my " Skagway Study ...
Monday, April 25, 2016

"The Mathematician"

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     Here is a selection from "The Mathematician," a long poem -- found in its entirety in The Rumpus -- by  Oregon poet Carl Ada...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

Women in Mathematics Count!

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     The theme for 2016 Mathematics Awareness Month is "The Future of Prediction."  And today I am wondering what date can be p...
Monday, April 18, 2016

Remembering Solomon Marcus

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     Almost five years ago I received an email from Romanian mathematician Solomon Marcus in response to my posting of a translation of  a...
Friday, April 15, 2016

From a math-friend and an Ohio poet

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     One of the wonderful things about writing a blog about my paired passions of poetry and mathematics is that the blog connects me with f...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

"The Giraffe" -- a poem for my pocket

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     I've found the poem I want to carry in my pocket (and in my head) on " Poem in Your Pocket Day " -- coming soon on April ...
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Monday, April 11, 2016

A Diagonal . . . and so little time . . .

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On my mind in recent days is the problem of "so little time."  About a year ago I posted a wonderful mathy poem by Californian Bre...
Thursday, April 7, 2016

"The Computation"

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     Here is a favorite poem of mine -- and it available with many others in the anthology, Strange Attractors:  Poems of Love and Mathemati...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

The Future of Prediction

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     As well as being National Poetry Month, April is Mathematics Awareness Month and this year's theme is " The Future of Predict...
Monday, March 28, 2016

Contemplating the heavens

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English writer G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a poet but was better known for his pithy sayings.   For example, we have the following st...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

The Shape of the World -- a dream of equality

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     One of the most vital components of the Washington DC poetry scene is Split This Rock -- an  organization that speaks and acts against...
Monday, March 21, 2016

World Poetry Day -- Celebrate favorites!

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     Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave      Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;        Quietly they go, the...
Friday, March 18, 2016

Poems that Count

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On January 6 of this year I attended a wonderful poetry reading (sponsored by The Word Works ) that featured the work of poets Tera Ragan a...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

A poem is an equation?

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     Exiled Romanian poet Nina Cassian (1924-2014) spoke with a daring and imaginative voice that I have much admired.  And she occasionall...
Friday, March 11, 2016

Celebrate Math Women

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     March is Women's History Month and, although this year's theme focuses on women in public service and government , my own thou...
Monday, March 7, 2016

Inspired by Pi

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     Last year, a few days after Pi-Day, my email had a link (Thanks, Paul Geiger !) to an example of Pilish -- this one a circle poem by M...
Thursday, March 3, 2016

Arnold diffusion (and poets of Romania)

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     I have had the good fortune to attend two BIRS Math / Creative Writing workshops in Banff (most recently in January 2016) and one of t...
Monday, February 29, 2016

The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance

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     Audre Lorde  (1934-1992)  is one of my favorite poets; links to my previous postings of her work in this blog are given below.  Here is...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

Links to Favorites

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     According to Google, these posts are the top ten favorites of visitors to this blog in the six years since my first posting in March, 2...
Monday, February 22, 2016

Newton, Einstein, Gravity, Poetry

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     Recent discovery of gravitational waves has put Einstein (1878-1955) -- and even Newton (1643-1727) -- into recent news, and a visit ...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

Euler formula poem

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     Sometimes I try to write a poem that explains a mathematical concept -- it's a difficult task  My effort usually results in someth...
Monday, February 15, 2016

How Old Is the Rose-Red City?

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     Most of Martin Gardner 's fans are avid puzzler's -- my connection with him is also one of admiration (he was a thoughtful pers...
Thursday, February 11, 2016

Visit JHM for Mathy Poems

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     Today I'd like to direct you to the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics , an online open-access journal that features poetry in each ...
Sunday, February 7, 2016

Using a Fano plane to create a poem

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     South Dakota mathematician Daniel May enjoys finding connections between his discipline and other arts -- and herein we consider a con...
Thursday, February 4, 2016

Visiting the Australian Poetry Library

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     An Australian poet ( Erica Jolly ) whom I have met through this blog has helped me to learn about the great variety of poetry and relat...
Sunday, January 31, 2016

A sonnet for Napoleon's Theorem

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     In geometry, Napoleon's theorem ( often attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769–1821) states that if equilateral triangles are cons...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Rabbis should learn to solve quadratics

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     Thanks to mathemagician Colm Mulcahy who connected me with poet Lisa Dordal -- and thanks to her for permission to offer these lines,...
Monday, January 25, 2016

Tartaglia solving the cubic -- in verse

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     Mathematical historians now credit both Cardano and Tartaglia with the formula to solve cubic equations, referring to it as the "...
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Saturday, January 23, 2016

Not good at math . . .

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     Connecticut poet Joan Cannon is a senior who laments her lin gering anxiety over mathematics in her poem, "Humility," below...
Thursday, January 21, 2016

Math Anxiety

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     Recent comments from a friend describing anxiety that seems to freeze his attempts to understand and use a new mathematical concept hav...
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Soon it will be February -- and Valentine's Day

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     Looking back :  on February 12, 2011 I posted math-poetry suggestions for Valentine's Day at this link: Loving a mathematician (Va...
Sunday, January 17, 2016

Poetry from a math teacher's son

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     In an earlier post I have noted how effectively mathematicians and their mathematics may be described by poets who are in the same fam...
Tuesday, January 12, 2016

A sonnet for W.R.Hamilton

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      Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) was also a poet (see, for example, this sonnet in a prior posting (13 October...
Friday, January 8, 2016

The world is round . . . or flat!

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British poet Wendy Cope frequently includes edgy humor in her poems ( s he is, indeed, a prizewinner in light verse ) -- and I like that. ...
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