An Ode to Mathematics
One of the math-poets that I have met through this blog is Foteck Ivota, a mathematics teacher in the Cameroon. In an email message, Ivota has offered this point of view: I love poetry too...
View ArticleMath-Poetry -- Linz, Austria -- 07/19/2019
On Friday, July 19, 2-4 PM at the 2019 Bridges Math-Arts Conference in Linz, Austria will be a Reading of Mathematical Poetry that features these poets:Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya Susan...
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Mathematicians are not just white dudes . . .
Recently I found the wonderfully informative website arbitrarily close: musings on math and teaching -- my first visit to the site was to this 2016 posting about "The Mathematician's Project" -- a...
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As in mathematics--a lot in a few words--in Haiku
Recently on a visit to the website Singapore Math I found dozens of "mathematical" Haiku -- and I offer several below. Still more Haiku may be found at "The Republic of Mathematics" (a blog...
View ArticleWhat is beauty? Is mathematics beautiful?
My thoughts have been turned to the beauty of mathematics by stumbling onto a very fine article, "Beauty Bare: The Sonnet Form, Geometry and Aesthetics," by Matthew Chiasson and Janine Rogers --...
View ArticleRecursion . . . in a life . . . in a poem . . .
The New Yorker offers a rich variety of poetry and in their print issue of 22 July 2019 they give a poem that I love: "Sentence" -- by Tadeusz Dabroswski (translated from the Polish by Antonia...
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A visual poem -- Decision tree
From Norwegian math-poet Mike Naylor, this fascinating visual poem. (Thanks, Mike -- from JoAnne Growney -- for permission to post.)Naylor presented this poem at the 2019 BRIDGES Math-Art conference....
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Poetry and Science
Originally from Scotland, Alice Major is a celebrated Canadian poet whose work often focuses on key ideas in mathematics and science. (Visit her website for lots of links.) The following lines of...
View ArticleCelebrating Paul Erdos
One of the most interesting and productive mathematicians of all time was Paul Erdos (1913-1996). He was author of more than 1416 papers, and his name became associated with a labeling process...
View ArticleJournal of Humanistic Mathematics--a TREASURE
Online and available FREE, the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics is a wonderful source of poems and stories and articles that connect mathematics to life. Thanks to editors Mark Huber and Gizem...
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Counting the Women . . .
Sometimes a professional group or a meeting-agenda or a table of contents contains so few women's names that they are easily counted. In this syllable-square stanza, I praise the absence of that...
View ArticleThe personal becomes mathematical -- in poetry
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) used counting in her description of love in her sonnet that begins "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." Contemporary artist, poet, and retired math...
View ArticleEnrich Mathematics Classes with Poems
In my mathematics classrooms, I have found it a challenge to include the history and spirit of mathematics -- and its people -- along with the math topics to be covered. Because I love poetry --...
View ArticleIs this Fib true?
Is it true that among folks not anchored to math by study or career choice, more people show delight in being poor at math than good ?The lines above have syllable counts...
View ArticlePoems of Mathematics -- recalling some old posts
Today I have been browsing some old posts, and offer below a few links to remind us of mathy poems posted in this blog more than five years ago “Compromise” by Charles S Allen...
View ArticleIs TWO more than ONE?
A poetry friend reminded me recently via email of the poetry of Shel Silverstein (1930-1999) -- both humorous and provocative. The emailed poem was "Zebra Question" and it employs the strategy so...
View ArticleColorado Math-Poetry Contest -- deadline 11-12-19
CONSIDER THIS ! The American Mathematical Society is sponsoring a math-poetry contest for middle school, high school, and undergraduate students in Colorado (deadline Nov. 12, 2019) with winning...
View Article"Creation Myth on a Moebius Band"
Found at this site, several MINIMS -- brief,thought-provoking poems by Howard Nemerov (1920-1991). This one deftly uses the mathematical Moebius Band: Creation Myth on a Moebius Band by...
View ArticleBeautiful algebra -- a Haiku
One of my recent discoveries has been the POEM GENERATOR website at https://www.poem-generator.org.uk/. In particular, I have used it to help me to generate Haiku to celebrate special birthdays....
View ArticleSing a Song of Mathematics . . .
One of the long-term supporters of links between mathematics and the arts is Douglas Norton -- a mathematics professor at Villanova University and very active in the Special Interest Group of the...
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