Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Art / Poem / Numbers (posted 7/14/13, then lost)

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     Recently I discovered a typo in my posting on July 14, 2013 of "Poem 25" by Kurt Schwitters.  My attempt to fix my typo led t...
Monday, November 29, 2021

Sometimes ONE is also TWO

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     A long-time supporter of this blog and of math-poetry connections is Gregory Coxson , Research Engineer at the US Naval Academy-- and h...
Monday, November 22, 2021

Equation Poetry

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     The term "Equation Poetry" is the title of an article by Radoslav Rochallyi   -- and posted on 11/9/ 2021 here in the MATH VA...
Thursday, November 18, 2021

MANIFOLD: Poetry Inspired by Mathematics

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     One of my recent pleasant pastimes has been spending time with MANIFOLD:  Poetry of Mathematics  by E R Lutken .   This poet's exp...
Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Aelindromes -- and Pi

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     On Twitter, I have seen frequent posts by UK-based writer Anthony Etherin -- and, encouraged by mathy poet Marian Christie , I have fo...
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

After loss we have nothing--which is something ...

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     A poet whose work I much admire is A. E. Stallings -- born in the US, in Georgia, but now living in Greece.  This poem -- a sonnet -- ...
Monday, November 8, 2021

A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems

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 Celebrate Raymond Queneau (1903-1976).      In a recent posting, mathy blogger Ben Orlin noted ( here in Math with Bad Drawings )  that 20...
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Enjoy the Possibilities in a Multiple-Choice Poem

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     Just as a test-taker mulls over which answer is correct, a poet mulls over word choices and what should come next.  South Dakota math...
Monday, November 1, 2021

Interview a Math Woman -- then Write and Win . . .

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     Amalie "Emmy" Noether (1885-1932) is one of the outstanding mathematicians of all-time -- and yet, during her lifetime she g...
Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Halloween Poems

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            Double, double toil and trouble;             Fire burn and caldron bubble.             Cool it with a baboon's blood,       ...
Monday, October 25, 2021

Visual Mathematical Poetry

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          A wonderful place to visit -- and to stay for a while -- is the blog maintained by Kazmier Maslanka, Mathematical Poetry , found h...
Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Inspired by Ten

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      Here is an intriguing poem by Massachusetts poet Ellen Wehle that focuses on ten ;  it is one of the works collected in Strange Attra...
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Monday, October 18, 2021

Maths and Poetry: Beauty is the Link

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     One of the American Mathematical Society's pre-Covid Programs for students was a MATH POETRY Contest -- and details and resources a...
Wednesday, October 13, 2021

A(nother) blog that celebrates Math-and-Poetry

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      Recently I have come to know another strong advocate of math-poetry connections.  Marian Christie ( read about her here ) has had long...
Monday, October 11, 2021

Global Math Week -- in 2021, October 10-16

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      The week of October 10-16, 2021 has been proclaimed as GLOBAL MATH WEEK 2021.  At this link is offered a list of math-celebration acti...
Tuesday, October 5, 2021

STEM Writing Contest for ages 11-19 (NYTimes)

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A recent item from The Learning Network in the New York Times announces their 3rd annual STEM Writing Contest -- with submission dates, Fe...
Monday, October 4, 2021

Presenting Gauss in Verse

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     German mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) is one of history's most prolific and influential mathematicians -- and he i...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Opposites -- in Life as in Mathematics

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        Recently on NPR I heard an engaging interview with poet Kevin Young about his new collection Stones -- about memory and loss, and ...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Geometry of a Neighborhood

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      As we walk around, our views of our surroundings change;  lines that look parallel from one view appear to be converging from another ...
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

It all starts with counting . . .

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     Sometimes our focus on what is important -- in life, in love  . . . as in mathematics --  starts with counting.   This process is artfu...
Monday, September 20, 2021

More of Yeats and Geometry

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      A blog-posting I made last week spoke of the use by poet William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) of geometry in his poetry .  Here is anothe...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Intersecting lines of math, the arts, and justice

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       A multimedia interdisciplinary project linking mathematics, the arts, and language -- and entitled  Rhythm of Structure -- w...
Monday, September 13, 2021

Yeats and Geometry

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      Spelman College Professor Emeritus Colm Mulcahy is a mathematician and scholar whose talents and interests reach far and wide.  An em...
Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Seeing Mathematics Everywhere

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     Ohio poet Cathryn Essinger has a twin brother who is a mathematician -- and links to mathematics sometimes appear in her poetry.   Her...
Monday, September 6, 2021

The math of everyday life . . .

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     Back in the 90's when I participated in several poetry workshops at Pennsylvania's Bucknell University, one of my fellow-studen...
Tuesday, August 31, 2021

There is more than one way to die . . .

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      In the 1970's I had access to birth control and was fortunate to be able to be involved with adoption of children rather than abo...
Monday, August 30, 2021

Mathematics and Poetry -- Arts of the Heart

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      On the opening pages of a Springer Reference, Handbook of the Mathematics of the Arts and Sciences , we find a list of 107 fascinating...
Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Using "mathematics" in a poem

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     One of my daily emails is poem-a-day from poets.org -- and yesterday's poem surprised me with the word "mathematics" app...
Monday, August 23, 2021

Opposites Attract

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     Poems by visual poet Karl Kempton are always fascinating and often mathy.  Here, from Kempton's collection, poems about something a...
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Shaping Poems with Numbers

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      Numerical patterns can help guide our minds and fingers to create poems -- and one of the patterns I like is the Fibonacci numbers -- ...
Monday, August 16, 2021

BRIDGES -- connecting math and poetry

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     The BRIDGES Math-Arts organization held its 2021 conference (early in August) online  -- and, although many of the meetings were avail...
Friday, August 13, 2021

JHM -- a rich source of mathy poems

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      Every six months the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics offers a new online issue and includes a generous offering of mathy poems.  He...
Monday, August 9, 2021

Once upon a time, 350 was our goal

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     Back in 2007, 350 parts per million was the "safe upper limit" for CO 2 in our atmosphere -- a figure  presented by NASA sci...
Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Poetry with Numbers -- from Lewis Carroll

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     One of the timeless treasures on my bookshelves is a complete collection of work by Lewis Carroll (pen name for Charles Lutwidge Dodg...
Saturday, July 31, 2021

Favorite -- most visited -- Posts

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Because this blog has more than a thousand posts, spread over more than eleven years of posting, finding best information can be challenging...
Friday, July 23, 2021

Excitement from Finding a Proof . . . and then . . .

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Recently I have been revisiting the poems that Sarah Glaz and I collected for the anthology, Strange Attractors:  Poems of Love and Mathemat...
Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Love and Tensor Algebra

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     Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) was a Polish science fiction writer whose works have been widely translated.  Here is a poem of his (found h...
Monday, July 19, 2021

Distance Melts . . . between math and poetry . . .

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      One of my early math-poetry connections was with applied mathematician John Lew (1934-2006) who contributed often to the Humanistic ...
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Mathematics Humor -- in rhyming verse . . .

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      At the website KOMPLEXIFY! a mathematician named Travis celebrates his love of mathematics in various ways, including humor and verse...
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Monday, July 12, 2021

Limericks about Graphs -- Prize-Winners

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     A couple of weeks ago I posted information about prize-winning poetry in the Writing portion of the 2021 MoMath Steven Strogatz Contes...
Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Picture a Mathematician . . . describe HER . . .

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     Mathematicians are not always white and nerdy and male . . . but, for the others who dare to specialize in science and mathematics, the...
Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Numbers keep track of memories . . .

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     Sometimes the specific nature of counting can help us, for a bit of time, to steer our thoughts for away from sadness.  Here is a poem ...
Thursday, July 1, 2021

Looking back . . . to previous posts . . .

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  BROWSE and ENJOY! Back in January 2020 I gathered a list of titles of previous posts and posted it here at this link .  And below I offer...
Monday, June 28, 2021

Math Communication with Poetry -- Strogatz Prize

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Recently I have learned -- through Mo-Math ( National Museum of Mathematics ) -- of the of the Steven H. Strogatz Prize -- recognizing hig...
Friday, June 25, 2021

One More Love Poem

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     Expressing love with mathematical terminology is beautifully done in "One More Love Poem" by  Dunya Mikhail   -- this poem wa...
Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Interpreting Khayyam -- in Rhyme

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     Eleventh century Persian scholar Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) is described by Wikipedia as a polymath -- he was a mathematician, astronome...
Monday, June 21, 2021

Putting CALCULUS into a poem . . .

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 Can our world be described using calculus?      The poem-a-day offering this morning (6/21/21) from poets.org gives me new ideas about de...
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