Monday, August 31, 2020

Poetry on Twitter

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      Dubbed the "unofficial poet laureate of Twitter" Brian Bilston (a pen-name) sometimes uses mathematics to shape his poems; ...
Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Ten thousand parts of cat . . .

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As a cat-lover, I am drawn to David Manning's mathy poem that I offer below:          Live Round      by David T. Manning        Al...
Monday, August 24, 2020

What can we count on?

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A s the August days grow shorter in a hot summer of social distancing, here is a sample of my thoughts:           I learned to count      ...
Thursday, August 20, 2020

From an engineer who loves poetry . . .

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João Augusto Sampaio is an Environmental and Civil Engineer who loves poetry; here is a sample: by João Augusto Sampaio   Sampaio...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Voting and being counted . . .

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      A story in the KIDSPOST section of today's Washington Post offers a reminder that 100 years ago today -- on August 18, 1920 --  t...
Monday, August 17, 2020

Heart Arithmetic

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      During these days of protest and politics and pandemic, a diversion -- some playful thoughts about LOVE from poet Carl Sandburg (1878...
Monday, August 10, 2020

Poems can help us teach/learn mathematics . . .

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     With increasing awareness of the value of integrating the arts in science and mathematics (expanding STEM to STEAM), numerous teachers ...
Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Celebrate the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

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     Recently Vol.10, No.2 of the online Journal of Humanistic Mathematics has become available online.  This issue is a "Special Is...
Monday, August 3, 2020

Point of Inflection -- and the coronavirus

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     In the UK, the Radical Statistics Group describes itself as "using statistics to support progressive social change."  The J...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Census . . . correct counting is not easy. . .

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     One of the challenges of applying mathematics is doing it correctly.  Each of us has a limited view, often affected by biases such as ...
Monday, July 27, 2020

Prove it . . .

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This post's title "Prove it" occurs several times within the poem, DREAMers Mark Themselves        by Maricielo Ampudia ...
Friday, July 24, 2020

A favorite recursion . . .

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      memories bring back             memories bring back                    memories bring back                             memories ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Finishing halfway . . .

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     Recently I have enjoyed thinking about the poem "Bunny Slope" by Polish poet Tadeusz Dabrowski (found here in The Paris Re...
Monday, July 20, 2020

Math-Arts Connections -- links to rich reading . . .

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     The Table of Contents for the  latest issue of the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts offers titles for a rich array of "...
Friday, July 17, 2020

Poetry contest winners --- π-ku

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     The website Aperiodical.com is described as "a meeting-place for people who already know they like maths and would like to know ...
Wednesday, July 15, 2020

A thoughtful Fibonacci poem

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     An email message from Washington, DC poet and blogger Karren Alenier alerted me to this mathy Fibonacci poem found online in the Sum...
Monday, July 13, 2020

Math-Poetry for a virtual BRIDGES Conference

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     Due to the COVID-19 pandemic this year's 2020 Bridges Math-Arts Conference will not be held.  One of the regular events at this i...
Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Wonderful math-poetry . . . in lots of online places

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      Carol Dorf , poetry editor of the online journal, TalkingWriting , has been sharing (during the pandemic) daily poems via e-mail -- a...
Monday, July 6, 2020

Life Lessons in Math and Rhyme

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     One of my former colleagues at Pennsylvania's Bloomsburg University is statistician Reza Noubary .  This Iran-born mathematician h...
Friday, July 3, 2020

Independence . . .

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     Tomorrow, July 4, the US celebrates "Independence" Day and I am reflecting on the following quote by Albert Einstein (1879-19...
Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Opening our minds to New Views . . .

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     One of the values of study of mathematics is that to make progress we must continually revise our ways of looking at things. ( Yes, th...
Monday, June 29, 2020

Considering opposites . . . and finding union . . .

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     The categorization of different points of view as opposites can disappear as a unified system embraces both of them.  In mathematics, t...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Math-poetry in The Mathematical Intelligencer

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     In a recent e-mail, this message:  " The Mathematical Intelligencer . Vol. 42 No. 2 is now available online."   Most Intelli...
Monday, June 22, 2020

Counting on ... and on ... BLACK LIVES MATTER!

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     In these days of learning to recognize the racism and racial injustice that has gone on in the United States for SO LONG I am reminded ...
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Principles of Accounting -- in verse!

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      Quarantining has turned poetry readings into Zoom events -- and that brought Pennsylvania poet Barbara Crooker to my computer a coupl...
Monday, June 15, 2020

Everybody counts -- Axioms for diversity

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Found here in the 2016 Notices of the American Mathematical Society -- these words that are mathematical, poetic AND important!  
Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Unconscious(?) bias

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       Wherever she goes        there is mathematics --        but THEY don't call        her a mathematician . . .               ...
Monday, June 8, 2020

Learning from Copernicus

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     These days are challenging ones -- HOW can we live safely?  How can we live morally? How can we learn that none of us is the center of ...
Friday, June 5, 2020

Does nothing exist?

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      From Montreal mathematician, poet, and artist Alex Ionut , this highly imaginative poem, "The Empty Set Exists."  -- a poem ...