Sunday, September 30, 2018

Counting syllables . . . measuring memory

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Political events of this past week (involving a candidate nominated by President 45 to serve on the Supreme Court) have triggered my thinkin...
Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Name five!

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     A recent mailing from the National Museum of Women in the Arts offered me this challenge:  name five female artists!  Including friends...
Monday, September 24, 2018

Celebrate math students -- a Fibonacci poem!

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     South Dakota mathematician Dan May teaches mathematics at Black Hills State University where he also leads workshops for middle school...
Thursday, September 20, 2018

A mathy poem for sale . . . in Kenya

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     A vernacular poem by Kenyan writer Alexander Nderitu  ("Kenya's Shakespeare") -- entitled " Mathabu ma Carey Francis...
Monday, September 17, 2018

Time and Precision . . . .

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   California poet Carol Dorf is a semi-retired secondary school mathematics teacher who is an important force in poetry.  Not only a fine ...
Thursday, September 13, 2018

Meeting Math People via Poems

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     Mathematics classes are crowded with vital material and it is hard to find time to also consider the PEOPLE of mathematics -- one way t...
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Math Limerick Stories

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     Mathematics teacher Josephine Johansen  is a talented teacher who works to help her students LOVE mathematics.  Below are two stanzas f...
Monday, September 10, 2018

OEDILF -- with definitions in limerick form

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     Since 2004, OEDILF, the Oxford English Dictionary in Limerick Form has been assembling limerick definitions of English words.  I lear...
Thursday, September 6, 2018

Something or Nothing -- Thinking about Zero

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     The site of the 2019 Bridges Math-Arts conference has been announced  -- it will meet in Linz, Austria next July.  This link leads to ...
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Tuesday, September 4, 2018

As a new school-year starts, a Latin Square poem

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 With MATH in the middle,   here is a LATIN-SQUARE poem that starts and ends with GIRLS  !  girls do great math...
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, ...