Wednesday, February 26, 2020

A MATH WOMAN acrostic poem

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Can one describe a MATH WOMAN in 9 words? and, what if those words' first letters must spell MATH WOMAN? Try it -- it's fun!  ...
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Monday, February 24, 2020

Counting syllables, considering snowflakes

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     From Larry Lesser , a professor at The University of Texas at El Paso (a researcher in math education) and a poet and songwriter and fr...
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Which order is best -- or should I try them all?

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This posting celebrates a new poetry collection --  Ringing the Changes by Stephanie Strickland   ( Counterpath , 2020). This new c...
Monday, February 17, 2020

Those trains in word problems -- who rides them?

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    A Problem in a Math Book     by Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000)      I remember a problem in a math book      about a train that leaves fr...
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

"Binary Heart" -- linking love and mathematics

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      From the xkcd webcomic by Randall Munroe -- and also shown on the cover of Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics , we ha...
Sunday, February 9, 2020

Valentine's Day -- a time for Love and Mathematics

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     Perhaps you are looking for a mathy Valentine ,  or a Valentine for a mathy person . . . or both.   This link leads to the resu...
Thursday, February 6, 2020

Welcome DIVERSITY in mathematics

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     As February on the calendar brings BLACK HISTORY month and March brings WOMEN'S HISTORY month, I invite you to explore the contribu...
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Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Another prize-winning poem

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     It was not until after my posting yesterday that I got permission from the third of the winners in the AMS 2020 student poetry contest...
Monday, February 3, 2020

Prize-winning math poems -- 2020 AMS contest

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In 2020, for the second year in a row, the American Mathematical Society has held a math-poetry contest for students.  ( Contest information...
Thursday, January 30, 2020

Learning slowly . . savoring difficulty . . .

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      There are geniuses (like Srinivasa Ramanujan ) who learn mathematics quickly -- but I am not one of them.  In the following poem I ref...
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Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Poetically exploring the the invention of "i"

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     Today's posting features work by Punya Mishra , professor and administrator at Arizona State University -- a writer who offers expl...
Monday, January 27, 2020

Remembering Leonardo da Vinci

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     One of the readers featured at the recent 1/17/2020 JMM math-poetry readin g was Italian mathematician/poet Rosanna Iembo .  Below, wit...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Focus on FOUR

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     Numerous poems by Canadian poet Alice Major  connect to science and mathematics, and Major has connected me with Ottawa poet and mechan...
Monday, January 20, 2020

Remember -- and Celebrate

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     Today as we remember Martin Luther King, I invite you to visit postings in this blog that celebrate his life -- follow this link .   ...
Thursday, January 16, 2020

Math-Poetry tomorrow (1/17) -- in Denver at JMM

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You are invited: Sponsored by SIGMAA-ARTS and the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics After the reading, the poetry program will be...