{"id":5159,"date":"2020-03-05T19:07:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T00:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/blogonmathblogs\/?p=5159"},"modified":"2020-03-05T19:07:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T00:07:52","slug":"a-tour-of-intersections-poetry-with-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/blogonmathblogs\/2020\/03\/05\/a-tour-of-intersections-poetry-with-mathematics\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tour of Intersections: Poetry with Mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know about you, but between coverage of the coronavirus outbreak and political discussions looking ahead to this year’s presidential elections, I have been encountering a lot of stress-inducing content lately. Reading poetry is a welcome break from that, so here is a roundup of a few of my favorite posts from the last few months on the Intersections: Poetry with Mathematics<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n

“A MATH WOMAN acrostic poem”<\/a><\/p>\n

In this short post, JoAnne Growney challenges readers to “describe a MATH WOMAN in 9 words? and, what if those words’ first letters must spell MATH WOMAN?”<\/p>\n

After all, March is still Women’s History Month.<\/p>\n

I’m still thinking of ideas for my poem.<\/p>\n

“Those trains in word problems — who rides them?”<\/a><\/p>\n

This post is about the poem “A Problem in a Math Book” by Yehuda Amichai. The poem was originally written in Hebrew before being translated into more than 40 other languages, Growney’s post notes.<\/p>\n

If I had to pick a favorite line from the poem, it would be this part (about two trains in a math problem): “And no one ever asked what happens when they meet.”<\/p>\n

“Learning slowly . . savoring difficulty . . .”<\/a><\/p>\n

Growney shares one of her own poems called “Reflection,” which is about her mathematics learning process.<\/p>\n

I relate deeply to this line. ” My notes were three times as long as what I had read.”<\/p>\n

“Poetically exploring the the invention of ‘i'”<\/a><\/p>\n

Featuring an except from “The Mathematical i” <\/i>by Punya Mishra. <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

“Dogs Know . . . Mathematics”<\/a><\/p>\n

This piece explores the poem “Dogs Know” by Larry Lesser, which first appeared in the Journal of Humanistic<\/em> Mathematics<\/em> and was also featured on NPR. I really enjoy the section of the poem that talks about the dog solving a packing problem, but I think my favorite phrase from the poem is:<\/p>\n

My dog knows trigonometry, tracking
\nperiodic rhythms
\nof moon
\nand heart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Finally, Growney’s blog also has two posts (this one<\/a> and this one<\/a>) about the three winning poems in the 2020 AMS Math Poetry Contest: “Outlier,” by Sabrina Little, “The Number Won,” by Austen Mazenko and “x\u00b2 + y\u00b2 = 1(ife),” by Chenyu Lin, Colorado Christian University.<\/p>\n

Have ideas or feedback to share with us? You can reach us in the comments below or on Twitter (@writesRCrowell<\/a>)!<\/p>\n

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