Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Learning from Poetry -- "The Courtesy of the Blind"

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      Can difficulty with understanding mathematics be compared with physical blindness -- a difficulty that is biological rather than chose...
Thursday, June 23, 2022

Remembering Alan Turing

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      A posting from Mathigon on Twitter reminded me that today is the birthday of pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing (1912-1954); a...
Monday, June 20, 2022

Mathy Poems on YouTube

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      In a recent posting -- 6/08/2022 -- I tell of mathematician-poet Sarah Glaz and link to her website that has a collection of links to...
Friday, June 17, 2022

Word-Play with Mathematics -- On-Stage

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      One of the rewards from time spent with mathematics or from time spent with poetry is the array of multiple meanings that we find . . ...
Tuesday, June 14, 2022

The Windmill Proof

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      From Alice Major, Canadian poet and first Poet Laureate of the city of Edmonton, Alberta, I learned of Welsh computer science profess...
Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Many, many mathy poems -- THANK YOU, Sarah Glaz

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      Sarah Glaz , mathematics professor emerita at the University of Connecticut, is also a poet.  AND, not only a poet but a coordinator o...
Friday, June 3, 2022

The Mobius Strip -- in a LIMERICK

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     Mathematics offers brief, condensed language for many big ideas.  Even for small problems -- such as the word problems of a beginning...
Monday, May 30, 2022

All truths wait in all things . . .

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       Tomorrow, May 31, is the 130th anniversary of the birth of American poet, Walt Whitman .  Below I include a few Whitman lines (with t...
Friday, May 27, 2022

Mathematics might be dangerous!

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       Censorship of Math Texts : A Syllable-Square with Questions             Florida educators have banned        Lots of mathematics text...
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Monday, May 23, 2022

Crisscrossing Infinity

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     Poet and painter and literary theorist Paul Hartal was born in Hungary, with higher-education experiences in Israel and the U.S. -- an...
Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Math-Poetry -- when distinct worlds collide . . .

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     Carol Dorf has been a long-time leader in math poetry projects.  A now-retired secondary school math teacher from California, Carol is...
Monday, May 16, 2022

Bridges Math-Arts Conference 2022

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      Founded by Reza Sarhangi (1952-2016) in 1998, the BRIDGES organization has had annual conferences and is an ongoing supporter of lin...
Thursday, May 12, 2022

Poem of the Census Enumerator

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          When I look at           the person I           meet on the street,           what do I see? One of the powerful and relevant poem...
Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Inspirational/Poetic Quotes about Mathematics

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     The poetic quotes below sample what is found in an article by Natasha Irshad , " Inspirational quotes about the importance of Math...
Thursday, May 5, 2022

Build a Poem using a Fano Plane

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     Many of the mathematical poetic forms introduced in this blog are structures that can be used to build a poet's fragmented thoughts...
Tuesday, May 3, 2022

"A Mother's Math is Never Done"

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     In just a few days (on May 8) we will celebrate Mother's Day 2022 in the US.  And I am thinking back to the July 2018 issue the Jo...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Poem-in-your-Pocket Day -- April 29, 2022

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       The following stanza by  award-winning children's author,  Beatrice Schenk de Regniers , (1914-2000), has led to an annual celebr...
Monday, April 25, 2022

28 Lines for History's FIRST recorded author

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     Earlier this month I attended (virtually) a mathematics conference and focused my attention on sessions that linked math and the arts. ...
Thursday, April 21, 2022

April 22 -- Observe Earth Day

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     Along with the vicious Russian attacks in Ukraine, our world today is observing a much longer period of destruction to our planet.  Thi...
Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Censorship of math books -- Oh, my!!

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                         A Syllable-Square for Math Texts                                                    If a math text shares          ...
Thursday, April 14, 2022

Poetry at the Mathematics Conference

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      Last weekend, April 6-9, was a virtual national jmm - Joint Mathematics Meetings -- and I attended a number of sessions that explore...
Monday, April 11, 2022

War and Resistance -- in Eleven Three-line Stanzas

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      Recently I searched work by Ukranian authors at the Poetry International website -- hoping to find poems with mentions of mathematics...
Monday, April 4, 2022

April Celebrates both Math and Poetry . . .

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     April is Math-Stat Awareness Month and here at the American Mathematical Society website are lots of ideas for learning and enjoyment...
Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Winning Essays about Math Women

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      The Association for Women in Mathematics each year sponsors an Essay Contest in which students (junior high, high school, and colleg...
Monday, March 28, 2022

A Poet with a Slide Rule

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     In 1966 Life Magazine celebrated Danish scholar Piet Hein (1905-1966) in an article ( found here , p. 55...) by Jim Hicks entitled ...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Celebrate Amalie Emmy Noether

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 On this date -- March 23, 1883 -- mathematician Emmy Noether was born:         Emmy Noether's abstract axiomatic view        changed th...
Monday, March 21, 2022

Happy World Poetry Day, 2022

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 In the words of Albert Einstein (1879-1955), "Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

IF/THEN #IfThenSheCan THE EXHIBIT

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     One of the exciting current events here in the Washington, DC area is the # IfThenSheCan Exhibit   -- a monumental exhibit of 120 3-D...
Thursday, March 10, 2022

Celebrate Pi -- and Poe

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     Recently I came across a link I had saved to an article from last June in the Washington Post -- an article that considers Edgar Allan...
Monday, March 7, 2022

International Day of the Woman -- 03-08-2022

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 Celebrate Math-Women with Poems Throughout the history of mathematics, women have often been excluded or ignored.  This is changing.  I off...
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Friday, March 4, 2022

Poetry of ideas -- an anagram, a palindrome

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      Minnestoa math teacher Ben Orlin 's website Math with Bad Drawings is a fun place to visit and Orlin often posts on Twitter -- br...
Wednesday, March 2, 2022

World Book Day, celebrate Bright lady . . .

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      Tomorrow, March 3, is WORLD BOOK DAY -- and I use the occasion to pull off the shelf one of my favorites, The Mathematical Magpie ; st...
Monday, February 28, 2022

A Picture is worth 1000 words . . .

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     Tomorrow, March 1, we begin Women's History Month .  Join in celebration of math people with the Mathematician Poster Project   -- ...
Friday, February 25, 2022

Black boys at the blackboard doing math . . .

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     Last Wednesday evening the WordWorks-sponsored poetry reading , "Poets vs the Pandemic," brought back to my attention Pennsyl...
Monday, February 21, 2022

Reduce stress in math class -- write a poem

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        Recently I have come across a website for the New England Literary Resources Center -- and one of the suggestions offered for manag...
Thursday, February 17, 2022

February -- National Haiku-writing Month

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     Whether to satisfy particular constraints when writing a poem is an idea that is very important to poets.  Some think that following st...
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Sunday, February 13, 2022

Celebrate with a MATHY Valentine

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 Celebrate Valentine's Day with mathy verse! Follow this link to see the variety of examples in previous posts.
Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Seven-line Fibs

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 In a previous post (on 2/2/2222) , I shared a link to dozens of Fibs; today I offer a Fib variation -- this time with 7 lines.      Daughte...
Monday, February 7, 2022

The Poetry of Science

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     Poet and teacher Sam Illingworth does much to celebrate the links between poetry and the sciences.  He is the founder of Consilience ,...
Friday, February 4, 2022

Words from Martin Luther King Jr.

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     During this Black History Month or any month, Martin Luther King Jr is a man to remember and to honor.  His words have appeared in thes...
Wednesday, February 2, 2022

New issue -- Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

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     The online, open-access Journal of Humanistic Mathematics (JHM) publishes new issues twice each year -- and the first issue for 2022 i...
Monday, January 31, 2022

Math Communicators also are important

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A posting early this month featured the noted Indian mathematician Ramanujan (1887-1920) who was mentored by the British mathematician G. ...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Keep Exploring . . .

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     In addition to its published magazine, Scientific American has a large variety of blogs .  One of my favorites was Roots of Unity by ...
Thursday, January 20, 2022

Celebrating mathematics with song . . .

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     Some of the most memorable links between mathematics and the arts are found in song-lyrics.  For example, "That's Mathematics...