Thursday, August 29, 2019

Enrich Mathematics Classes with Poems

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    In my mathematics classrooms, I have found it a challenge to include the history and spirit of mathematics -- and its people -- along wi...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

The personal becomes mathematical -- in poetry

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      Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)  used counting in her description of love in her sonnet that begins "How do I love thee? ...
Monday, August 26, 2019

Counting the Women . . .

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     Sometimes a professional group or a meeting-agenda or a table of contents contains so few women's names that they are easily counte...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics--a TREASURE

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     Online and available FREE, the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics is a wonderful source of poems and stories and articles that connect ...
Monday, August 12, 2019

Celebrating Paul Erdos

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     One of the most interesting and productive mathematicians of all time was Paul Erdos (1913-1996).  He was author of more than 1416 pape...
Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Poetry and Science

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     Originally from Scotland,  Alice Major is a celebrated Canadian poet whose work often focuses on key ideas in mathematics and science....
Monday, August 5, 2019

A visual poem -- Decision tree

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From Norwegian math-poet Mike Naylor , this fascinating visual poem.  (Thanks, Mike -- from  JoAnne Growney  -- for permission to post.) ...
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Recursion . . . in a life . . . in a poem . . .

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     The New Yorker offers a rich variety of poetry and in their print issue of 22 July 2019 they give a poem that I love:   "Sentence...
Monday, July 29, 2019

What is beauty? Is mathematics beautiful?

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     My thoughts have been turned to the beauty of mathematics by stumbling onto a very fine article, "Beauty Bare: The Sonnet Form, Ge...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

As in mathematics--a lot in a few words--in Haiku

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     Recently on a visit to the website Singapore Math I found dozens of "mathematical" Haiku -- and I offer several below.   Sti...
Monday, July 22, 2019

Mathematicians are not just white dudes . . .

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     Recently I found the wonderfully informative website arbitrarily close: musings on math and teaching -- my first visit to the site was...
Thursday, July 18, 2019

Math-Poetry -- Linz, Austria -- 07/19/2019

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     On Friday, July 19, 2-4 PM at the 2019 Bridges Math-Arts Conference in Linz, Austria will be a Reading of Mathematical Poetry that fe...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019

An Ode to Mathematics

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     One of the math-poets that I have met through this blog is Foteck Ivota, a mathematics teacher in the Cameroon.  In an email message, I...
Monday, July 15, 2019

Mother-daughter geometry -- in poetry . . .

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     Last week (July 9) was the birthday of my mother -- and, although her body lies in a grave, her spirit continues to dance (and to both ...
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Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Euler's Vision -- in Verse

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      Scheduled to be read at the Mathematical Association of Victoria's annual conference in December of this year is a poetical chora...
Monday, July 8, 2019

Visual Poetry -- Newton's Third Law

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     One of the long-term and talented producers and advocates of mathematical visual poetry is Kaz Maslanka; his long-term mathematical-poe...
Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Fighting the heat -- with limericks!

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     Brief poems with strict patterns -- like the FIB and the LIMERICK -- are often used to convey mathy messages.  Recently this limerick ...
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Thursday, June 27, 2019

Out of Nothing -- A Strange New Universe

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      Shashi Thutupalli is a scientist -- in Bangalore, India -- who enjoys poetry and often explores the connections between poetry and ma...
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Monday, June 24, 2019

Counting to seventy . . .

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    I am exited by last week's news that Oklahoma poet-- and member of the Muskogee Nation --  Joy Harjo  has been appointed Poet Laure...
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Friday, June 21, 2019

Connecting with BRIDGES . . .

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      Bridges Math-Arts Conferences have become an annual summer tradition and this year's conference is July 16-20 in Linz, Austria. ...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Love, marriage, and number . . .

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     Australian poet Richard Scutter has online collection of his own poems ( this link leads to a chronological listing ) and of favorit e...
Thursday, June 13, 2019

Solve a puzzle -- find a poem!

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     At Canada's Capilano University, Lisa Lajeunesse  teaches in mathematics in the School of STEM -- and is an enthusiastic promoter o...
Monday, June 10, 2019

Sailboat Mathematics

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     Celebrated on June 2 at the Joaquin Miller Poetry Series Washington DC's Rock Creek Nature Center, poetry by winners of the  Jackl...
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Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Have fun with "The Pi Song"

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     Often we celebrate the number pi -- ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, an infinite non-repeating decimal that begi...
Monday, June 3, 2019

Celebrating Walt Whitman . . .

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     Last Friday -- May 31, 2019 -- was the 200th anniversary of the birth of American poet, Walt Whitman and the website of the Academy of ...
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...