They Say She WAS GOOD (for a woman)!
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4d ago
     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  Twitter X posting from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at St. Andrews -- and it is followed by a stanza from a poem about Noether that I was inspired to write many years ago; following those lines, a link to previous poetic postings about Noether in this blog.         Read more ..read more
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March 21 -- Celebrate World Poetry Day
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6d ago
 This blog has lots of poetry possibilities! Scroll down and choose a mathy poem! READ and CELEBRATE ..read more
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Honoring Math Teacher and Poet, Amy Uyematsu
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1w ago
      On Saturday, March 23 at 2 PM, a poetry-event is planned at Descanso Gardens in La Cañada Flintridge, California to celebrate the life of poet, math teacher, and activist Amy Uyematsu (1947-2023).  It was my pleasure to be connected to Amy via various math-related events and her work has been included in previous postings in this blog.  (Here's a link to a list of those earlier posts.)      One of my favorite poems of Amy's is  "The Meaning of Zero:  A Love Poem."  The complete poem is found here at Poets. org and in the collection S ..read more
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Discovery Tool -- Following a Pattern
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1w ago
     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 -- for the effort to conform to a pattern challenges me to think about my topic in new ways.  In the history of poetry, rhyme-choices were frequent--yielding sonnets, villanelles and a variety of other forms.        In recent years, online and printed versions of poems have become very accessible and the principle, "Rhymes help us remember" has become less of a focus in poetry.  One of the popular connection ..read more
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Celebrate Pi
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2w ago
     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 "Pi" by Polish Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012).   I offer a portion of the poem below (followed by a link to the complete poem). from    Pi     by Wiwlawa Szymborska    (translated from Polish by Clare Cavanaugh and Stanislaw Baranczak (1946-2014)).      The admirable number pi:      three point one four one    ..read more
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Celebrating Women who write Mathy Poems
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2w ago
       Now in March -- in Women's History Month -- many writers are taking a bit of extra time to explore the history and achievements of women.  It was my delight to find a March 6 posting here on the Poetry Blogging Network with a list of celebrated women in poetry that includes several writers of mathy poems.  Of the ten poets listed, the following five have been included in this blog -- in earlier postings.  For each, I include a mathy sample and the poet's name is linked to earlier postings that include their work.      Adrienne ..read more
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A poem-title that drew me in -- "Calculus I, II, III"
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1M ago
      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  information about the posting is found here at Poets.org.  my background in mathematics helped me to be especially pleased early this month (on 2/2) when the daily poem (written by poet and artist Brad Walrond) was entitled "Calculus I, II, III" -- and if offers reflection on different levels of learning.  Below I offer a few lines from the poem; the complete poem is available at this link. from     Calculu ..read more
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Shaping poems with Pascal's Triangle
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1M ago
      One of my favorite websites to visit is "Poetry and Mathematics" -- a blog from poet Marian Christie.  Today I focus on her posting of poems with word-lengths structured by Pascal's Triangle; here is a sample: Christie's complete Pascal Triangle posting -- with a triangle for each season -- is available at this link.   AND, here is a link to previous connections to Christie and her work in this blog.  ..read more
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Mathematician, Poet -- Blind to the worth of Women
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1M ago
     As we study mathematics and learn of outstanding mathematicians, many of us do not also learn which of those mathematicians also were poets.  A posting that I found recently in Marian Christie's blog, Poetry and Mathematics, features poetry by  Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831-39).      Maxwell's verse also is featured in the math-poetry anthology, Strange Attractors:  Poems of Love and Mathematics (A.K Peters, Ltd., 2008);  preview available here at amazon.com.      Below I offer a stanza fro ..read more
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Math Poems for Students of All Ages
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1M ago
      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 (a featured page at weareteachers.com).  It contains these words: "Poetry can transforms kids’ attitudes about math exponentially!" Here's a sample. And here is  a link to more about poet Rebecca Kai Dotlich ..read more
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