What is TIME?
Recently I have been reflecting on the capacity for multiple meanings -- a feature that strongly links mathematics and poetry; with this similarity in mind, I present a thought-provoking couplet,...
View ArticleDinner at a Math Conference . . .
A strong advocates of humanistic mathematics -- supporting links between mathematics and the arts -- is Greg Coxson, both a poetry fan and a Research Engineer in the Department Electrical and...
View ArticleI'm tired of being a zero vector . ..
there are more to figures than ever meets the eye Inexhaustible GOOGLE has led me to a website "The Best Philippine Short Stories" which contains not only stories but also artwork...
View ArticleIf 1718 is a poem title . . .
If 1718 is a poem title, the poem should celebrate Marie Gaetana Agnesi(1718-1799)author of the first book about both differential and integral calculus.This post celebrates not only Agnesi (who was...
View ArticlePoetic roots -- square, cube, . . .
In the 2008 film, "Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Kumar offers a poem, "Square Root of Three" -- a poem attributed to Dave Feinberg, and Feinberg has this to say about it: I...
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Seek . . . and Find
This blog has more than a thousand posts -- and many have been discovered as the days passed and are not organized by topic. To explore, simply scroll down and encounter a variety of math-poetic...
View Article2019 Student Math-Poetry -- FREE Poster
MATH-POETRY POSTER!A GREAT item for a classroom bulletin board!Late in 2018 Maryland math students were invited to enter a math-poetry contest (go here and scroll down for contest rules) -- the winners...
View ArticleDelicious Geometry. . .words from Bertrand Russell
Sometimes we find that words presented as prose are poetic . . . as these words of British philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell (1872-1970): At the age of eleven, I began...
View ArticleCelebrating Walt Whitman . . .
Last Friday -- May 31, 2019 -- was the 200th anniversary of the birth of American poet, Walt Whitman and the website of the Academy of American Poets offers poems by Whitman and background...
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Have fun with "The Pi Song"
Often we celebrate the number pi -- ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, an infinite non-repeating decimal that begins with 3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 . . .. Pi is a...
View ArticleSailboat Mathematics
Celebrated on June 2 at the Joaquin Miller Poetry Series Washington DC's Rock Creek Nature Center, poetry by winners of the Jacklyn Potter Young Poets Competition, sponsored by The Word Works,...
View ArticleSolve a puzzle -- find a poem!
At Canada's Capilano University, Lisa Lajeunesse teaches in mathematics in the School of STEM -- and is an enthusiastic promoter of links between mathematics and the arts. At the 2018 Bridges...
View ArticleLove, marriage, and number . . .
Australian poet Richard Scutter has online collection of his own poems (this link leads to a chronological listing) and of favorite poems (go to this link and scroll down) by himself and others....
View ArticleConnecting with BRIDGES . . .
Bridges Math-Arts Conferences have become an annual summer tradition and this year's conference is July 16-20 in Linz, Austria. One of the participants in this year's Mathematical Poetry Program...
View ArticleCounting to seventy . . .
I am exited by last week's news that Oklahoma poet-- and member of the Muskogee Nation -- Joy Harjo has been appointed Poet Laureate of the United States. Harjo came to poetry via music and she...
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Out of Nothing -- A Strange New Universe
Shashi Thutupalli is a scientist -- in Bangalore, India -- who enjoys poetry and often explores the connections between poetry and mathematics. He has shared with me several samples of his work...
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Fighting the heat -- with limericks!
Brief poems with strict patterns -- like the FIB and the LIMERICK -- are often used to convey mathy messages. Recently this limerick caught my eye (found at madkane.com). Heated Limerick...
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Visual Poetry -- Newton's Third Law
One of the long-term and talented producers and advocates of mathematical visual poetry is Kaz Maslanka; his long-term mathematical-poetry blog is found here. Mazlanka is a featured participant...
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Euler's Vision -- in Verse
Scheduled to be read at the Mathematical Association of Victoria's annual conference in December of this year is a poetical choral piece for eight voices entitled "Euler's Vision" -- composed by...
View ArticleMother-daughter geometry -- in poetry . . .
Last week (July 9) was the birthday of my mother -- and, although her body lies in a grave, her spirit continues to dance (and to both inform and confuse me). Recently published in the Journal of...
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