Thursday, May 30, 2019

Delicious Geometry. . .words from Bertrand Russell

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     Sometimes we find that words presented as prose are poetic . . . as these words of British philosopher and mathematician  Bertrand Russ...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

2019 Student Math-Poetry -- FREE Poster

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MATH-POETRY POSTER! A GREAT item for a classroom bulletin board! Late in 2018 Maryland math students were invited to enter a math-poetr...
Saturday, May 18, 2019

Seek . . . and Find

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     This blog has more than a thousand posts -- and many have been discovered as the days passed and are not organized by topic.  To explor...
Friday, May 17, 2019

Poetic roots -- square, cube, . . .

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     In the 2008 film, "Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Kumar offers a poem, " Square Root of Three " -- a poem ...
Thursday, May 16, 2019

If 1718 is a poem title . . .

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If 1718  is a poem title,  the poem should celebrate Marie Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799) author of the first book about both differential...
Tuesday, May 14, 2019

I'm tired of being a zero vector . ..

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there are more       to figures       than ever meets       the eye      Inexhaustible GOOGLE has led me to a website " The Best Phi...
Monday, May 13, 2019

Dinner at a Math Conference . . .

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     A strong advocates of humanistic mathematics -- supporting links between mathematics and the arts -- is Greg Coxson, both a poetry fan...
Wednesday, May 8, 2019

What is TIME?

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    Recently I have been reflecting on the capacity for multiple meanings -- a feature that strongly links mathematics and poetry; with this...
Monday, May 6, 2019

Celebrating math teachers

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  This week (May 6-10) is        US Teacher Appreciation Week 2019          Celebrate your teachers with poems!       This link...
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

PLAY with math words . . . find a poem

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A few days ago -- playing with math words -- I found this. Here's a link to SEARCH results for this blog's presentations ...
Monday, April 29, 2019

Al-gorithms . . . conform or suffer?

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      Thanks to poet/mathematician Scott Williams who alerted me to this work by "a good poet and friend" Stephen Lewandowski , a...
Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Zero plus anything is . . .

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     Poet Jane Hirshfield is an award-winning poet, essayist and translator  whose work and I admire and enjoy .  In her collections I have...
Monday, April 22, 2019

Poems in support of Earth Day

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     These words come from an editorial by Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post in September of 2018.           Public awareness      ...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Some of the Magic of THREE

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The Universe in Verse  -- an Earth-Day celebration of Science and Poetry A NYC event on April 23 -- learn more here !      In her brain...
Monday, April 15, 2019

If I had a million lives to live . . .

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     This posting features Carl Sandburg's "Humdrum," a poem that reflects on "million."  (This poem and others by S...
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Poetry with NEGATIVE numbers

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     In October of 2018, I was reminded of the significant achievements of poet and playwright, Ntozake Shange (1948-2018) as I read  her o...
Monday, April 8, 2019

A Theorem in Limerick Form

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     Going through a pile of saved clippings, I came across an article in the April 2014 issue of Math Horizons that involved humorous rest...
Thursday, April 4, 2019

The Kingdom of Mathematics

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     When I was a mathematics professor at Pennsylvania's Bloomsburg University , one of the colleagues whom I much admired and enjoyed ...
Tuesday, April 2, 2019

"Science Friday" welcomes National Poetry Month

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Last week, NPR's program " Science Friday " anticipated National Poetry Month and offered a list of poems with links to scienc...
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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