Monday, April 30, 2018

Embrace both art and mathematics

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      A recent news article in The Hofstra Chronicle  opens with a statement attributed to John Adams that begins something like this:    ...
Thursday, April 26, 2018

A Poem for My Pocket

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 5  April 26 is "Poem in Your Pocket Day" for 2018 This poem is in my pocket! The Great Figure      by William Carlos Will...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Move beyond dislike to the genuine . . .

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April celebrates  National Poetry Month and National Mathematics-Statistics Awareness Month      One of the sad similarities between ma...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Poetry sometimes OPPOSES mathematics!

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     One of the finest historians of mathematics is Judith V. Grabiner, professor emerita of Pitzer College;   here is a link to one of her...
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Monday, April 16, 2018

Mathy three-liners -- thoughts for today

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When two negatives meet, is the pair more or less negative?           For almost any question,           almost every number          ...
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Friday, April 13, 2018

Interview with mathy poets . . .

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     Philadelphia mathematician and poet Marion Cohen has worked with Sundress Publications to prepare an interview offering MATH-POETRY vie...
Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Celebrate Martin Gardner

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      Martin Gardner (1914-2010) was a friend to mathematics and made many aspects of the subject available to a wide audience for twenty-f...
Monday, April 9, 2018

March for Our Lives -- Numbers and complexities!

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     One of the very moving recent events in my life was the "March for Our Lives" in Washington a couple of weeks ago.  Passionat...
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Bits of Geometry -- from a "Phenomenal Woman"

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     Today's Google Doodle beautifully reminds us that this day is the 90th anniversary of the birth of Dr Maya Angelou (1928-2014) -- ...
Monday, April 2, 2018

Split This Rock Poetry Festival, April 19-21, 2018

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For poems and poets that speak out FOR rights, AGAINST injustice,  attend the biennial SPLIT THIS ROCK Poetry Festival! Festival info...
Friday, March 30, 2018

Celebrate life -- BILLIONS of heartbeats

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     I've been thinking a lot about last weekend's March for Our Lives and now it is the Easter weekend -- and these events have le...
Monday, March 26, 2018

Mathematical cycles of life

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    After participating last Saturday in Washington, DC's "March for Our Lives" my head has been full of numbers related to gu...
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Friday, March 23, 2018

Happy Birthday -- Emmy Noether!

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Born March 23, 1882. Amalie Emmy Noether (1882-1935) was an outstanding mathematician.  Three years ago GOOGLE celebrated her birthday .   ...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Skinny poetry -- 11 lines, most with just 1 word . . .

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     Last weekend at a DC poetry gathering I had the opportunity to hear poet Truth Thomas speak about the "Skinny" -- a poetry f...
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Monday, March 19, 2018

Math and poetry -- shout out the connection!

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    Recently I came across a  fun-to-read posting here in the blog "math for grownups"  about connections between math and poetry ...
Thursday, March 15, 2018

Math-minorities -- stories needing to be shouted

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     One of my favorite Facebook communities is Women in Maths  -- a group energized by Susanne Pumpluen at the University of Nottingham an...
Monday, March 12, 2018

Celebrate Pi-Day with a message in Pilish

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      As you may already know, when we write in Pilish, our word-lengths follow the pattern of the digits of pi.  For example,  here is a li...
Thursday, March 8, 2018

Philippa Fawcett -- Talented and Overlooked

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 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY !   Celebrate MATH-WOMEN by writing POEMS about them!        I want to shout out a THANK YOU to Larry Ri...
Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Linking mathematics to the rest . . .

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Today my obtuse anger is rightly directed toward G. H. Hardy (1877-1947) and to the followers who have accepted his view --  in his 1...
Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Mathematical images via Haiku

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          Musing                          So many versions        of the truth -- mathematics         always one of them .        ...
Monday, February 26, 2018

Poetry from Ursula Le Guin

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     Well-known and beloved writer Ursula Le Guin  (1929-2018) died last month -- at the age of 88.  Although best known for her fiction, Le...
Thursday, February 22, 2018

Circles are inclusive . . . let's make circles!

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Rectangular  picture of a syllable- triangle poem about the power of a circle .
Monday, February 19, 2018

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of ... Mathematics

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     One of my favorite mathy authors is Lillian R. Lieber (1886-1986) and one of the websites that has recently featured her work is the e...
Thursday, February 15, 2018

Sonnet for Bolyai -- and translations

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     The Hungarian mathematician János Bolyai  (1802 – 1860) was one of the discoverers of non-Euclidean geometry — an axiomatization  that ...
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Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Happy Valentine's Day -- I love SEVEN!

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Happy Valentine's Day!                      I love seven –   as  a                                                            five...
Friday, February 9, 2018

A Matrix Poem, "RESIST"

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     My first awareness of the term "matrix" was in a math class -- where it means a rectangular array of quantities that are trea...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Find a Mathy Valentine!

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As the 2018 version of Valentine's Day draws near, I urge you to visit past postings to sample the variety contained in my years of coll...
Monday, February 5, 2018

Math-poetry for Black History Month

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     Recently I have revisited my post (from October 2, 2012) that offers a puzzle poem by math-science guy Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806), &...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Square poems -- pricked by a cactus!

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     Back home now in Maryland after some time in Arizona (near Tucson) with cousins, my mind is full of the beauty and diversity of the ca...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

50 years after "The Population Bomb"

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          In 1968 while I was in graduate school at the University of Oklahoma, we all were talking about Paul Erlich 's new book, The P...
Monday, January 22, 2018

A poem that counts

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     Recently I discovered ( at Poets.org ) this thought-provoking number-poem by Oklahoma poet  Quraysh Ali Lansana . bible belted: math ...
Friday, January 19, 2018

Counting syllables and supporting life

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Today, as abortion-protesters march in Washington, I look back to a post from March 25, 2013 and repeat it below.  I, too, cherish life -- ...
Thursday, January 18, 2018

OULIPO, Mathews -- and permutations of proverbs

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     Harry Mathews (1930-2017) was a writer -- novelist, poet, essayist, and translator --whose work interests me a great deal.  He was the...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Blog history -- title, links for previous posts . . .

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      My first posting in this blog was nearly eight years ago (on March 23, 2010).  If, at the time, I had anticipated its duration, I s...
Monday, January 15, 2018

Honor Martin Luther King -- think on his words!

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Celebrating the birthday of Martin Luther King (1929-1968) with his words-- which include several mathy terms. We must accept  fini...
Thursday, January 11, 2018

Clear the head for best thinking by walking

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     An engineer -- and friend -- who is a long-time supporter of the STEM to STEAM program is US Naval Academy Professor Greg Coxson .  Al...
Monday, January 8, 2018

A Marriage of Music and Mathematics

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     Italian mathematician and musician Rosanna Iembo  is an interdisciplinary star that I have had the pleasure of meeting -- and hearing -...
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