Limerick on Math & Beauty
Image credit: eoliene_pe_campii Mathematical Beauty: A limerick Punya Mishra, Jan 27, 2010 Doesn’t it just gladden your heart to see These games we can play wit...
Tag: Mathematics
A tangent, a line & a circle, another Math-Poem
A tangent, a line and a circle A math poem Image credit: chrstphre (on Flickr) A point outside a circle, shoots out two lines one heading for the center the oth...
The mathematical “i”
I guess ’tis the season of Math-Po’s! Sue VanHattum, whose challenge started all this, commented on my recent Math-Po (Math-Po (Mathematical Poetry)...
Math-Po (Mathematical Poetry): Goldbach’s Conjecture
My previous post (Poetry, Science & Math, OR why I love the web) mentioned a challenge by Sue VanHattum of “Math Mama Writes” to “write a ...
Poetry, Science & Math, OR why I love the web
A 5th grade science assignment, transformed. A rant about Mother Goose. A math poetry challenge! How did that come to be? And what does that have to do with lo...
Postdictable, the commercials
I had written earlier about the idea of “postdictable” which was defined as something that is “surprising initially, but then understandable w...
Information is beautiful
Anybody who knows me (and/or reads this blog) will know of my love of issues related to representation (see all postings under that category). So I am always lo...
Visual proofs
I just came across these lovely visual mathematical proofs. For instance consider the following sequence: 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + … = 1 and then see the ...
Making (non)sense of dots & lines
I love how these interconnected pipes called the Intertubes lead to serendipitous discoveries. Here are two videos, the first I went looking for, and the second...