Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Math Is Beautiful and So Are You

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 Read on for a poem of love   and mathematics!      This poem celebrates an upcoming wedding . . .  one of my two wonderful sons will be ...
Monday, August 27, 2018

Upcoming in Washington -- National Book Festival

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     The BOOK WORLD section of this past weekend's Washington POST  offers the program for The Library of Congress National Book Festiva...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018

The Arithmetic of Identity

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     There is never enough time to read all that I wish  -- so much poetry and mathematics awaits my attention.  The Portuguese poet Fernand...
Monday, August 20, 2018

Celebrating Visual Poetry

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     One of my delights in both poetry and mathematics is the multiplicity of meanings that come from careful attention to a particular text...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Imaginary Numbers

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     Today a fine poem that plays with the meanings of "real" and "imaginary" -- and one that I like a lot.  Its author,...
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Monday, August 13, 2018

Speaking, understanding . . . where is truth?

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     A review in the Washington Post of a new book about Oscar Wilde  opens with this quote: "Man is least himself when he talks in h...
Friday, August 10, 2018

Code switching -- and a Fib . . .

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     1       When       1        I      2        speak to      3        you, I wish      5        to be understood.      8        If I...
Wednesday, August 8, 2018

American Arithmetic

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     Last Monday -- with visiting friends (Janet and Terry) from Pennsylvania -- I again visited the National Museum of the American Indian ...
Friday, August 3, 2018

Highlighting Poetry-Math Favorites

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     Looking back over the eight years of  postings in this blog, I find several items that have stood out in their popularity.  In case you...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Mathematics and Motherhood

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     The latest issue of the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics focuses on the theme "Mathematics and Motherhood" -- go here to exp...
Monday, July 30, 2018

Sixty years is a long time . . ..

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      Yesterday in my Honda, in heavy traffic -- driving to my present home in Silver Spring, MD from a high school reunion weekend in India...
Thursday, July 26, 2018

Mathematics . . . an encrypted love song . . .

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      Australian poet Geoffrey Lehmann is also a writer of children's books and a tax lawyer.  This mathy poem comes from his collectio...
Monday, July 23, 2018

Poetry at BRIDGES 2018

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The 2018 Brides Math-Arts Conference in Stockholm will take place this week -- July 25-29, 2018.  Mathematician Sarah Glaz has been a leade...
Friday, July 20, 2018

Counting insects, counting on them . . .

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     Recently I had the opportunity to vacation in southern Portugal with my older daughter and her family and there -- with clear, bright-b...
Wednesday, July 11, 2018

After Waking, Running

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     Today's posting is a villanelle about running -- and it is was written as a response to Theodore Roethke's villanelle, "Th...
Monday, July 9, 2018

What does MEAN mean?

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Visual poetry by Mathemusician Larry Lesser : These diagrams are part of a paper by L.M. Lesser found here .
Thursday, July 5, 2018

A proof in limericks

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     The word "transcendental" is an adjective that refers to an abstract or supernatural noun.  In mathematics, the term's me...
Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Waking -- to mathematics, to poetry

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Bridges-Math-Arts-Conferences --   Places to make connections! Yesterday I posted a bit of information about POETRY at the 2018 Bridges Co...
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Monday, July 2, 2018

BRIDGES, 2018 -- math-art-poetry -- in Stockholm

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       During each summer since 1998 , mathematicians and visual artists, poets and musicians, have gotten together at a BRIDGES conference ...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Reaching out . . .

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Consider the geometry and community of  trees .  Can we learn from them?           We plant two trees.           Their trunks grow stro...
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Monday, June 25, 2018

Visual, Poetical -- Mathematical Impressions

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Art / Visual poetry        by Anatolii T Fomenko   Statistical fantasy . .. imagining our random world . . .       The art by Fomenko...
Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Our place in the universe . . .

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      Nanao Sakaki   (1923-2009) was a Japanese poet who began to wander the world after his term in the Japanese military in WWII -- and hi...
Monday, June 18, 2018

Choose the right LINE

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     Recently, looking through my copies of POETRY Magazine , in the September 2008 issue I found this quote (used as an epigraph) from a p...
Friday, June 15, 2018

NOTHING is SOMETHING

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Thinking today about ZERO -- zero tolerance, zero fear!      In recent days, there's been widespread reporting of results of a study...
Monday, June 11, 2018

Use MUSIC to enrich STEM teaching

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     Last year  this blog announced an online conference  involving the use of song in teaching STEM subjects.  From one of the organizers, ...
Friday, June 8, 2018

More people are reading poetry!!

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     In an email today from Poets.org , I received a link to an article describing increases in the numbers of readers of poetry in recent y...
Wednesday, June 6, 2018

A visual poem

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     One of the delights of today's Internet is that it enables us to find friends with common interests all over the world.  An email m...
Monday, June 4, 2018

Nature's Examples of Fibonacci Numbers

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     Recently I have been reexamining some of the treasures that have been on my bookshelves for a while.  One of these is D iscovering Patt...
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...