Thursday, May 31, 2018

A self, divided

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     On this very humid summer morning it is a treat to be drawn by Virginia poet Joan Mazza 's poem to the chill of a winter morning as...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Celebrating with a Fib

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This Fib is to celebrate all those people who connect poetry and math -- CHEERS! For more about Fibs, do a SEARCH of this blog -- or...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Time comes quantized . . .

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     Earlier this month, I saw a poem ("Time/text") by wonderful Canadian poet and friend Alice Major  on Facebook and she has giv...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Counting What's Left

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     Recently at the 2018 Split This Rock Poetry Festival , I purchased a copy of ghost fishing:  An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology edited b...
Monday, May 21, 2018

Playing with time

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        Here is a poem that plays with the geometry of time -- a poem that first appeared in Mathematics Magazine , Vol 68, No 6 (December 1...
Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Meeting the horizon line . . .

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Poet James Galvin's work is described in this bio as both musical and "profoundly ecological" -- both qualities that strongly...
Monday, May 14, 2018

Counting to 13

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     I am a long-time New Yorker subscriber and what a delight it is, occasionally, to open a new issue of the magazine and find that  one ...
Friday, May 11, 2018

Math gems -- in the imagery of poems

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     Much of mathematical terminology is of the flexible sort that can create vivid and interesting images in poetry -- and many poets embed...
Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Appreciation of Teachers (this week and FOREVER)

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 This is National Teacher Appreciation Week   Celebrate your teachers with poems  This link leads to a poem (previously posted) that cele...
Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Statistics and Mindfulness . . .

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     April was Math-Stat Awareness Month and National Poetry Month  -- and here in this blog we celebrate those topics year-round -- today w...
Thursday, May 3, 2018

Counting on . . . and on . . .

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      Claudia Gary is an active and celebrated poet in the Washington, DC area and she has a lifelong interest in mathematics -- starting, ...
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...