Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Mathy Poets -- Gone but Alive in our Memories

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     In a recent NYTimes article I have learned of the passing of poet-mathematician Jacques Robaud  (1932-2024) who was a key figure in th...
Saturday, December 28, 2024

Looking back, reflecting on TIME

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     As the year ends, I am conscious of how quickly time seems to pass for me -- and this morning I found this thoughtful quote on Facebook...
Tuesday, December 24, 2024

A bit of Wisdom with a bit of Math

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 Christmas is coming and my thoughts are focused on gifts for grandchildren and family celebrations but I want to take a few minutes to shar...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Remembering Poet Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024)

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      I much admire the work of Nikki Giovanni -- a poet who spoke both fearlessly and eloquently.  As she deserved, her life was big news ...
Saturday, December 14, 2024

Math Doors are Open Now . . .

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     One of the important and wonderful organizations to which I belong is the Association for Women in Mathematics   --  and each year AWM ...
Monday, December 9, 2024

Student Math-Poetry Contest -- submit by 2/2/2025

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This message is for middle-school , high school and college students -- write a MATHY POEM , enter it in this contest : American Mathemati...
Thursday, December 5, 2024

Celebrate AMS Award Winner Katherine Stange

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      For me, postings on  X ( Twitter ) are a frequent source of math-poetry news.  Today I found this: This link leads to information abou...
Monday, December 2, 2024

A 3-4-5 Triangle of Poetry

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     A wonderful feature of the Internet is the opportunity it offers for rapid connection with ideas from people around the world -- and I ...
Monday, November 25, 2024

Student Contest -- STEAM Powered Poetry Videos

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     For some of us, holidays -- Thanksgiving and Christmas and . . . -- offer time to explore new projects.  Here is a project for math/sci...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

PRECISION vs. IMAGINATION

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     In the creation and development of both mathematics and poetry both PRECISION and IMAGINATION are important.  Recently I came across th...
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Exploring Angles Through Poetry

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      As I have previously mentioned , recently I have discovered mathy poems at the website poemverse.org , and I enjoy exploring there.  O...
Friday, November 8, 2024

"Countless" -- a Scrabblegram poem

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     At the website X  (Twitter) one of my frequent enjoyments is a Scrabblegram posting by David Cohen, writer from Atlanta, Georgia.  Coh...
Monday, November 4, 2024

Haiku about Math

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     Recently I have found a rich source of mathy poems to explore -- at the website poemverse.org .  For example, there are Poems about Ma...
Tuesday, October 29, 2024

A Mathematician's Villanelle

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     One of the most active and effective ambassadors for connections between mathematics and the arts is Gizem Karaali . Professor of Mathe...
Friday, October 25, 2024

Geometry List Poem

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      Mike Ferguson (America-born but long-time Brit) is a retired teacher of English and creative writing AND a poet.  I offer one of his ...
Monday, October 21, 2024

"Celebration of the Mind" Day -- October 21

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     Established in honor of math-popularizer Martin Gardner (1914-2010), Celebration of the Mind Day occurs on October 21 each year.  Lot...
Friday, October 18, 2024

Halloween -- Counting Pumpkins

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     Recently I have found a website maintained by Jenna Laib , a K-8 math specialist in the Boston area -- and at her website there I have ...
Saturday, October 12, 2024

A Poem Structured by a Finite Field

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        Mathematician   Ursula Whitcher   is an Associate Editor for the American Mathematical Society's   Mathematical Reviews  and a p...
Monday, October 7, 2024

Ada Lovelace Day -- this year October 8

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      The second Tuesday in October has been selected as Ada Lovelace Day -- a time for celebrating that pioneering woman and all women in ...
Thursday, October 3, 2024

Classroom Difficulties with Mathematics

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      Something to think about . . . do some of us still cling? . . . obediently and thoughtlessly . . . to beliefs such as                 ...
Sunday, September 29, 2024

Complement and Compliment -- and Geometry

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     Poetry's special effects often come from the multiple meanings of terms used -- and today I offer  a snip of a mathy item that I en...
Monday, September 23, 2024

September Brings THE BLOOMSBURG FAIR

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     During the past weekend, long-time friends in Pennsylvania have reminded me that this is the week of The Bloomsburg Fair -- an annual ...
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Midlife Calculus -- poems by Britt Kaufmann

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     Today's featured poet, Britt Kaufmann , is not only a writer but also a graphic designer, a playwright, and "a lifelong reader...
Saturday, September 14, 2024

Playing Hopscotch . . . and Counting . . .

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      Growing up on a Pennsylvania farm gave me lots of opportunities to use mathematics -- counting sheep, choosing patterns for planting, ...
Saturday, September 7, 2024

Favorite Number -- a Baker's Dozen

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      Among my favorite emails are those that come from Innisfree , an online journal ( at this link ) edited by poet Greg McBride , with ne...
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Tuesday, September 3, 2024

math talk -- a way to learn

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EXPLORE MATHEMATICS BY TALKING ABOUT IT!       math talk: mathematical ideas in poems for two voices   is the  title of a 1991 poetry collec...
Friday, August 30, 2024

Creating New Poems by Sampling Old Ones

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      In its collection of Math Voices the American Mathematical Society ( AMS ) has a very interesting  Feature Column -- a column written...
Monday, August 26, 2024

World's Most Interesting Mathematician

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      Angela Tabiri , a young mathematician from Ghana, in July captured global attention by winning the title,   World’s Most Interesting M...
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics

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      Daniel May -- professor at Black Hills State University in South Dakota -- enjoys not only teaching mathematics to future teachers bu...
Monday, August 12, 2024

Prison Math and Poetry Projects

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     One of the good things that is happening is that poets and math people -- and others -- are investing time and funds in projects to hel...
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Monday, August 5, 2024

BRIDGES Poetry -- and Clerihews

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    One of my favorite mathy publications is the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics , an online peer-reviewed journal published twice yearly ...
Friday, July 26, 2024

A Nickel, a Dime, a Dollar . . .

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    In childhood -- and later also -- rhymes help us to remember.  I recall reciting, in early years. "Pme, two, buckle my shoe; three,...
Saturday, July 20, 2024

Math can lead us to Poetry . . .

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       As I age and find myself slowing down in my math-poetry ventures it is a delight to see other mathy writers surging with energy and t...
Monday, July 15, 2024

Math films -- and a Pi-song

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     A film project worthy of support ( and found at this website )  is JOURNEYS OF BLACK MATHEMATICIANS : A documentary project by writer...
Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Whenever you see a tree . . .

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Often I explore and enrich my thinking by organizing information with a tree diagram.  The following poem by Padma Venkatraman (found here i...
Sunday, July 7, 2024

Bridges 2024 -- in Richmond, VA

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      As she had done in numerous preceding years, mathematician-poet Sarah Glaz is once again an organizer for a poetry reading at the BRI...
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Friday, July 5, 2024

Black Momma Math

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      I have signed up for a Google email service, "Google Alert" which sends to my g-mail address links to items found in Google ...
Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Celebrate Blaise Pascal

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      A couple of weeks ago (on June 19) I learned on X (formerly Twitter )   that 401 years ago, mathematician Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) wa...
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Triangular Poems

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      A recent return to one of my favorite poetry collections -- alas, now out of print -- Against Infinity: An Anthology of Contemporary M...
Monday, June 24, 2024

Mathematicians that aren't white men . . .

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           Who           can do           mathematics?           What about girls and women           and people of color?           We need...
Thursday, June 20, 2024

Blogging about Math and Poetry

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      One of my recent online pleasures has been visiting the Poetry Blogging Network  -- I was led there because it mentions my blog but I ...
Monday, June 17, 2024

Mathematics -- a Beautiful Mystery

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     Guided by Facebook, I have found and explored a variety of Math Poems on YouTube.  Here is a sample stanza from a poem that I enjoyed t...
Thursday, June 13, 2024

Invisible Poem

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This cartoon, found a few days ago on Twitter ( X ) , has reminded me of the role that both mathematics and poetry have in formulating the i...
Monday, June 10, 2024

Remembering Bob Grumman . . .

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       Recently I discovered an online article -- " Bob Grumman’s mathematical universe: somewhere, minutely, a widening " by math...
Friday, June 7, 2024

Integrating . . .

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      Integrating our fields of knowledge makes them more useful -- a view that has been correct for me, at least, and I am delighted when I...
Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Be Guided by BEAUTY!

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      When a person speaks of mathematics and poetry in the same sentence. I am interested -- and recently I came across an early-May financ...
Friday, May 24, 2024

Haiku in Math Class

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       One of my recent discoveries of math-poetry is in the activities of  Hofstra University professor Johanna Franklin ,   Franklin asks ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Finite vs. Infinite

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     One of my frequent interesting reads is the Quote of the Day #QOTD posted on Twitter by Mathematics & Statistics at St Andrews, @S...
Friday, May 17, 2024

Which of us have ARITHMOMANIA?

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     One of my favorite email subscriptions is to A.Word.A.Day --  a day-to-day collection each week (gathered by Anu Garg )  of five relate...
Monday, May 13, 2024

Scientific American feature-- METER

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Richard Blanco :      “An engineer, poet, Cuban American… his poetry bridges cultures and languages – a mosaic of our past, our present, and...
Tuesday, May 7, 2024

2024 AMS Math-Poetry Contest Winners

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     Each year the American Mathematical Society sponsors a student poetry contest-- looking for submissions from students in three categori...
Friday, May 3, 2024

Happy Birthday, AWM!

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      An organization that I celebrate -- though not often enough -- is the Association for Women in Mathematics   which celebrates its 53rd...
Thursday, May 2, 2024

Wordsmith theme -- words from Geometry

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      A delightful stimulus to expand my vocabulary is my subscription to "A.Word.A,Day" by Anu Garg -- and each Monday-through-Fr...
Monday, April 29, 2024

Speaking in Fibs . . .

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     Syllable-count patterns often are used in poems--helping to give a rhythmic tempo to the words.  As I mention often, syllable counts --...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Math in Shakespeare . . .

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     Yesterday, April 23, is the day on which William Shakespeare's birthday is celebrated; he was born long ago in 1564 and the actual ...
Monday, April 22, 2024

EARTH DAY -- what are ways to preserve our planet?

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Save our Mother Earth -- conserve  our resources, shift  to non-polluting substances. As many of you readers know, the poem above is an exam...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

A Mathy Celebration of National Poetry Month

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     It is a delight to me to see math and science publications including poetry!  Today I am enjoying the work of North Carolina poet Britt...
Monday, April 15, 2024

The Geometry of Distraction

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      California poet Carol Dorf is a retired math teacher and writer of a very varied library of poems, including many with math connectio...
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Enjoying Math-Poetry Connections

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           Poet Emily Lutken's first career was as a physician -- she specialized in family medicine and spent many years of practice in...