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Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics
04.05.2024
An organization that I celebrate -- though not often enough -- is the Association for Women in Mathematics which celebrates its 53rd...
03.05.2024
A delightful stimulus to expand my vocabulary is my subscription to "A.Word.A,Day" by Anu Garg -- and each Monday-through-Friday I get...
30.04.2024
Syllable-count patterns often are used in poems--helping to give a rhythmic tempo to the words. As I mention often, syllable counts --...
24.04.2024
Yesterday, April 23, is the day on which William Shakespeare's birthday is celebrated; he was born long ago in 1564 and the actual date...
23.04.2024
Save our Mother Earth -- conserve our resources, shift to non-polluting substances. As many of you readers know, the poem above is an exam...
18.04.2024
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...
16.04.2024
California poet Carol Dorf is a retired math teacher and writer of a very varied library of poems, including many with math connectio...
11.04.2024
Poet Emily Lutken's first career was as a physician -- she specialized in family medicine and spent many years of practice in the...
09.04.2024
" Math problems take on new meaning in this class that combines rhymes and verse with math instruction ." The above quotation come...
04.04.2024
Found today on X ( Twitter): Here is a link to a copy of the 1850 Chebyshev article. This link provides information about Pafnutii (o...
03.04.2024
April is National Poetry Month and Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month ! Found at the website We are Teachers , a collection of 3...
30.03.2024
Lawrence "Larry" Lesser is a mathematics and statistics professor at the University of Texas in El Paso -- and is also an active poet...
28.03.2024
For a long time I have been curious about what would result if I asked AI to write a blog post for me. One day recently I signed in at...
24.03.2024
March is Women's History Month; March 23 1882 is the birthdate of Emmy Noether (1882-1935). Here is a photo of Noether from a Twitt...
22.03.2024
This blog has lots of poetry possibilities! Scroll down and choose a mathy poem! READ and CELEBRATE!
20.03.2024
On Saturday, March 23 at 2 PM, a poetry-event is planned at Descanso Gardens in La Cañada Flintridge, California to celebrate the lif...
16.03.2024
When I pick up a pen to write on a particular subject, often it is useful me to try to follow a pattern for rhymes or syllable-counts -...
12.03.2024
Soon it will be Pi-Day (3.14) and this year I again call your attention to a poem by one of my long-time favorite poets -- the poem " P...
08.03.2024
Now in March -- in Women's History Month -- many writers are taking a bit of extra time to explore the history and achievements of w...
05.03.2024
One of the challenging AND enriching qualities of both mathematics and poetry is the multiplicity of meanings that particular expressio...
28.02.2024
A poetry event that I often enjoy is the posting by the Academy of American Poets of a poem-a-day -- today's poem is found here and...
24.02.2024
One of my favorite websites to visit is " Poetry and Mathematics " -- a blog from poet Marian Christie . Today I focus on her posting...
20.02.2024
As we study mathematics and learn of outstanding mathematicians, many of us do not also learn which of those mathematicians also were p...
16.02.2024
Occasionally I Google the pair "mathematics, poetry" to see what a web search can find for me. Many of the sites found this way are ...
13.02.2024
In my recent use of Google -- in search of mathy poems -- I came across this website: 38 Math Poems for Students in All Grade Levels...
09.02.2024
As frequent readers of this blog know, I am indebted to many people for their contributions of poems -- their own and links to others....
06.02.2024
Poet Nikki Giovanni is someone I much admire -- for her poetry and for her activism -- and recently I had had a chance to see the doc...
03.02.2024
Poetry 180 was a project initiated back in 2002 by the poet laureate Billy Collins -- a project with the goal of providing for s...
30.01.2024
In the days and years since my schooling, the numbers of math-women have increased and their public recognition also has increased. Bu...
26.01.2024
As I read this poem, I was reminded of attitudes toward mathematics: by poet Sunil Singh , from Words
20.01.2024
One of my recent finds has been an article that offers a list of 20 films about math, mathematicians, and math-geniuses . Eagerly, I o...
17.01.2024
During January 4-7, 2024, mathematics meetings were held in San Francisco, CA. Although unable to attend, I have spent some time br...
13.01.2024
Recently my thoughts have turned often to these mathy-poetic words by Danish-American comedian-musician Victor Borge (1909-2000): Laugh...
11.01.2024
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) This quote from science fiction writer Isaac Asimov is fou...
07.01.2024
One of the wonderful supporters of connections between mathematics and the arts has been BRIDGES , a conference-gathering that was in...
03.01.2024
STUDENTS – Middle School, High School, College Write a Mathy POEM OR Interview a Math-Woman, write an ESSAY ...
31.12.2023
As the year ends, remembering an important truth . . . The true spirit of delight, the exultation, the sense of being more than man, which ...
28.12.2023
As I enjoy the brightness that Christmas tree lights bring to a grey day, I am reminded of the following poem by Brian Bilston , found on T...
22.12.2023
One of my favorite memories of Christmas when I was a child involves recitation -- with family or classmates -- of this holiday rhyme,...
19.12.2023
Often I try to unravel the intricacies of a new idea by writing -- using communication with my fingers as steps toward understanding. ...