Friday, March 29, 2019

Celebrate Karen Uhlenbeck, Abel Prize winner

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     Celebration is everywhere (including here in The New Yorker   ) -- mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck has recently won the Abel prize for he...
Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Poetry-Mathematics--at Poets House--March 28

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       Tomorrow evening, March 28, 7 PM at Poets House in NYC,  Emily Grosholz , poet and philosopher of mathematics, will discuss her new...

From a Greek Nobelist . . .

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     Poet Odysseus Elytis (1911-1996) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1979.  At some time I purchased a copy of The Collected Poems o...
Monday, March 25, 2019

Give HER your support

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                         In school, many                      gifted math girls.                      Later, so few                     ...
Tuesday, March 19, 2019

How to Triumph Like a Girl -- Learn to Swagger!!!

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     A recent article in the Washington Post cited the discrimination faced by women in economics.  In response, I can't resist offer...
Monday, March 18, 2019

Looking back . . . titles, links to previous posts

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      For your browsing pleasure, h ere are  titles and links to  previous blog postings.   Below are listed linked-titles of posts from 201...
Wednesday, March 13, 2019

An Interview of/by a Mathy Poet

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     University of Connecticut mathematician-poet Sarah Glaz has interviewed me on behalf of the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts .  The...
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Monday, March 11, 2019

Celebrate Pi-Day on 3.14

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     If you are in the Washington, DC area you are cordially invited to a poetry-math program at The Writer's Center  on Thursday evenin...
Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Celebrate Math-Women with Poems!

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March is Women 's History  M onth! March 8 is International Women 's Day! and here i n this blog we  celebrate  math-women   wi...
Monday, March 4, 2019

Math in 17 Syllables

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     Counting syllables is an aspect of poetry that often interests math-people.  -- and when Haiku are composed in English, these three-lin...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Solving for X, Searching for LIFE

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     In January of this year I had the pleasure of attending a poetry reading featuring Linda Pastan and Le Hinton  -- Linda Pastan 's m...
Monday, February 25, 2019

Stories of Black Mathematicians (event postponed)

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     Dr. Scott Williams is a mathematician, poet, and artist blacksmith and, alas, illness will prevent him from being  the featured speaker...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

All Numbers are Interesting . . .

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     For math poetry and math art and a host of enticements to love math if you don't already, I recommend a visit to Grant Sanderson ...
Monday, February 18, 2019

George Washington, cherry tree, lifespan . . .

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     Today in the US we celebrate Presidents' Day -- including the birthday of George Washington (on February 22, 1732).  In the 1970s, ...
Friday, February 15, 2019

Musical sounds of math words -- in a CENTO

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  A cento is a literary work formed by assembling  words or phrases from other writers.   As a math-person, I love to hear the melod...
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

If 2017 was a poem title . . .

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     On my shelf is a 2018 anthology entitled Women of Resistance:  Poems for a New Feminism and, in its Table of Contents, I am particular...
Friday, February 8, 2019

Mathematics and Valentine's Day

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     On February 12, 2011, this blog first offered poetry to celebrate Valentine's Day -- and there presented Hannah Stein's poem, ...
Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Speed flunking math . . . NO, NO!

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     Found online . . . " Scab Maids on Speed " . . . reminding me once again the being bad at math continues to be a more popular...
Monday, February 4, 2019

Quantum Lyrics -- Poems

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      Quantum Lyrics  (W.W.Norton, 2009) is the title of a poetry collection by A. Van Jordan in which the poet celebrates scientists -- in...
Thursday, January 31, 2019

What can be proven . . .

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     Two weeks ago poet Mary Oliver  (1935-2019) died and her passing has caused me to turn again to her work. In "I Looked Up" --...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Mathy Limericks

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     Many mathy poets enjoy the challenge of satisfying (or almost-satisfying) the prescribed rhythm and rhyme schemes for the five-line po...
Monday, January 28, 2019

2019 AMS Prize-Winning Math Poems

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     Last fall the American Mathematical Society held a math-poetry contest for Maryland students and the winners were announced and celebr...
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Thursday, January 24, 2019

A Multi-Author Poem Celebrating Math-People

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     At the  Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore  last Friday evening, the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics ( JHM ) and  SIGMAA-ARTS ...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2019

"Math and Self" -- a visual poem

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     One of the great pleasures of attending mathematics meetings in Baltimore last week was meeting old friends.  One of these, Gabriel Pra...
Monday, January 21, 2019

A poetry equation . . . .

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     My recent attendance (January 16-19) at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore has resulted in a pile of math-poetry items to sor...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019

A Perfect Number

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     One of the things I love to find in a poem is the surprise of a double meaning -- especially involving a mathematical term such as ...
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Monday, January 14, 2019

Poems that Celebrate Mathematicians

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     Recently I received from John Golden ( blogger at mathhombre.blogspot.com and math professor at Michigan's Grand Valley State Uni...
Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Mathematical motherhood -- keeping count

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     The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics , with new issues coming twice a year, late in January and July, is a wonderful resource.  Their ...
Friday, January 4, 2019

A poem . . . like a mathematical proof . . .

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     Mathematician-Poet Sarah Glaz has been active in bringing poetry events to the annual summer Math-Arts conference Bridges  -- and she ...
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Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Celebrate a Science Woman -- and offer friendship!

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      Last weekend's Washington Post used the headline    Astronomer celebrated as the 'mother' of the Hubble Space Telescope ...
Monday, December 31, 2018

Celebrating winter with a Fibonacci poem

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  Another year ends . . . may 2019 bring good numbers for us all!        Exercise -- especially jogging -- helps to channel my restless...
Thursday, December 27, 2018

The square root of tomorrow . . .

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     The surprise of a mathy poem came into my email-box at 6 AM this morning, delivered as " Poem-of-the-Day " from the wonderful...
Thursday, December 20, 2018

A Syllable-Snowball of Holiday Wishesl

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  o    This   Christmas   let us strive    to    multiply    our understanding   of different neighbors --   each day add de...
Monday, December 17, 2018

Examining boundaries for Math-Women

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Mathematician Ursula Whitcher is a versatile and interesting person -- and currently an editor for the American Mathematical Society's M...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Defending Poetry . . . .

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With sadness I learned yesterday of the death of poet Meena Alexander (1951-2018) -- not only a fine poet but also one of my treasured teac...
Monday, December 10, 2018

The Heart's Arithmetic

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     For me, the Christmas holiday season is a time for family gathering and a treasured time for that reason.  Today my thoughts turn to on...
Friday, December 7, 2018

United by ice cream -- the sphere and cone

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     During recent months I have been part of an online course that has helped me and a dozen others to learn steps for editing Wikipedia -...
Tuesday, December 4, 2018

By Claude Shannon -- a Poem for Rubik's Cube

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     Below I present the opening lines of an 80-line (plus footnotes) poetic creation by Claude Shannon (1916-2001).  A mathematician, engi...
Friday, November 30, 2018

Chaos theory -- portrayed in poetry

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     A poem I have long loved is "Chaos Theory" by poet (and fiction writer and scholar) Ronald Wallace -- and he has given me pe...
Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Counting words with the Fibonacci numbers . . .

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Today a poem by New York poet, Larissa Shmailo , that explores aging with word-counts that match  the Fibonacci numbers.   ...
Monday, November 26, 2018

Marriage in Quantum Mechanics

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     Sometimes mathematical concepts also bring to mind phenomena in our everyday lives -- as in this poem by New Jersey poet  Charlotte Man...
Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Thankful for . ..

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          Now           I           give thanks --           for your grace           and empathy, for           mathematics and poetr...