Monday, September 14, 2020
Venn Diagram Poem
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Venn Diagrams
During these days of classifying people and points of view, my thoughts turn again and again to Venn Diagrams and I am then reminded of a thoughtful poem about math in grade-school days (by Pennsylvania poet and professor Marjorie Maddox) that I first read long ago -- and I offer it here:
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Venn Diagrams
by Marjorie Maddox
There, stuck in that class,
chalking circles on a board
so high your toes ached,
an inch of sock exposed,
all for the sake of subsets,
intersection.
That teacher with the tie too bright for day,
wide as your fingers spread
Thursday, July 1, 2021
Looking back . . . to previous posts . . .
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 titles of postings -- with links -- since that time.
you are invited to explore the SEARCH feature in the right-hand column
OR to browse the list of Labels (also to the right) -- and click on ones that interest you.
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Wonderful math-poetry . . . in lots of online places
Every time, these days, it seems, an equation gets forced. . . .
At Poets.org, as at many poetry websites, there is an opportunity to search -- using, for example, "geometry" or "equation" -- and to find lots of poems with mathematical connections.
Carol Dorf is a retired math teacher and a wonderful poet; this link leads to poems from her published in this blog and this link leads to "Wild Equations," a collection of some the mathy poems found in TalkingWriting.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
This plane of earthly love
To a Mathematician Lover by Joan Mazza
As we embark on this plane
of earthly love, I should explain,
my experiences with men
have doubled my troubles
and halved my pleasures,
divided my time into fractions