Celebrate Math-Women with Poems!
March is Women's History Month!March 8 is International Women's Day!and here in this blog we celebrate math-women with poems!Herein appear lots of poems featuring women in math and the SEARCH box in...
View ArticleCelebrate Pi-Day on 3.14
If you are in the Washington, DC area you are cordially invited to a poetry-math program at The Writer's Center on Thursday evening, March 14, at 7 PM-- come and enjoy exploring connections...
View ArticleAn Interview of/by a Mathy Poet
University of Connecticut mathematician-poet Sarah Glaz has interviewed me on behalf of the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts. The article Sarah wrote is now available online -- but the online...
View ArticleLooking back . . . titles, links to previous posts
For your browsing pleasure,here are titles and links to previous blog postings. Below are listed linked-titles of posts from 2018 and up-to now in 2019 and here is a link to a list of titles and...
View ArticleHow to Triumph Like a Girl -- Learn to Swagger!!!
A recent article in the Washington Postcited the discrimination faced by women in economics. In response, I can't resist offering Ada Limon's poem, "How to Triumph Like a Girl" -- its...
View ArticleGive HER your support
In school, many gifted math girls. Later, so few famed math women!Thank you to Math Horizons (edited by Dave Richeson)...
View ArticleFrom a Greek Nobelist . . .
Poet Odysseus Elytis (1911-1996) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1979. At some time I purchased a copy of The Collected Poems of Odysseus Elytis (translated by Jeffrey Carson and Nicos...
View ArticlePoetry-Mathematics--at Poets House--March 28
Tomorrow evening, March 28, 7 PM at Poets House in NYC, Emily Grosholz, poet and philosopher of mathematics, will discuss her new book, Great Circles: The Transits of Mathematics and Poetry,...
View ArticleCelebrate Karen Uhlenbeck, Abel Prize winner
Celebration is everywhere (including here in The New Yorker ) -- mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck has recently won the Abel prize for her revolutionary work: " . . . pioneering achievements in...
View Article"Science Friday" welcomes National Poetry Month
Last week, NPR's program "Science Friday" anticipated National Poetry Month and offered a list of poems with links to science. One of these is "Algorhyme" by Radia Perlman --...
View ArticleThe Kingdom of Mathematics
When I was a mathematics professor at Pennsylvania's Bloomsburg University, one of the colleagues whom I much admired and enjoyed is Reza Noubary. This mathematician-statistician also writes...
View ArticleA Theorem in Limerick Form
Going through a pile of saved clippings, I came across an article in the April 2014 issue of Math Horizons that involved humorous restating of mathematical theorems -- one of them, shown below,...
View ArticlePoetry with NEGATIVE numbers
In October of 2018, I was reminded of the significant achievements of poet and playwright, Ntozake Shange (1948-2018) as I read her obituary in the WashingtonPost. Shange wrote with daring and...
View ArticleIf I had a million lives to live . . .
This posting features Carl Sandburg's "Humdrum," a poem that reflects on "million." (This poem and others by Sandburg may be found online at poets.org -- at this vast resource-site also is a...
View ArticleSome of the Magic of THREE
The Universe in Verse -- an Earth-Day celebration of Science and PoetryA NYC event on April 23 -- learn more here! In her brain-pickings website, Maria Popova offers myriad links between science...
View ArticlePoems in support of Earth Day
These words come from an editorial by Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post in September of 2018. Public awareness and pressure are the best hope for effective...
View ArticleZero plus anything is . . .
Poet Jane Hirshfield is an award-winning poet, essayist and translator whose work and I admire and enjoy. In her collections I have found a thoughtful share of poems with links to mathematics --...
View ArticleAl-gorithms . . . conform or suffer?
Thanks to poet/mathematician Scott Williams who alerted me to this work by "a good poet and friend" Stephen Lewandowski, a retired conservation worker and author of 14 books (for example, One...
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PLAY with math words . . . find a poem
A few days ago -- playing with math words -- I found this.Here's a link to SEARCH results for this blog's presentations of "visual" poetryand this link leads to information about the NATIONAL...
View ArticleCelebrating math teachers
This week (May 6-10) is US Teacher Appreciation Week 2019 Celebrate your teachers with poems! This link leads to lots of previously-posted poems about math teachers.Here is a sample...
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