Comments on: Math in Poetry, Poetry in Math http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2009/07/29/math-in-poetry-poetry-in-math/ Loren Shure works on design of the MATLAB language at MathWorks. She writes here about once a week on MATLAB programming and related topics. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:24:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: E. Friedman http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2009/07/29/math-in-poetry-poetry-in-math/#comment-30818 E. Friedman Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:00:07 +0000 http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2009/07/29/math-in-poetry-poetry-in-math/#comment-30818 "Strength in Numbers" A blanket covered in inked figures, draped over my knees. Security. Symmetry. A hint of the universe. How can there be so much comfort in something that is disguised in coldness? But each one is alive. Four straddles two, as both its double and its even elder. Seventeen is perfect, beautifully round like a circle, like the earth. Three forty three, a three-dimensional one-one-one, built like a heptagon, except better. And infinity, the most magnificent of them all. Like a white cloud of mist and snow. Like joy. Like God. “Strength in Numbers”

A blanket covered in inked figures, draped over my knees.
Security.
Symmetry.
A hint of the universe.
How can there be so much comfort in something that is disguised in coldness?
But each one is alive.
Four straddles two, as both its double and its even elder.
Seventeen is perfect, beautifully round like a circle, like the earth.
Three forty three, a three-dimensional one-one-one, built like a heptagon, except better.
And infinity, the most magnificent of them all.
Like a white cloud of mist and snow.
Like joy.
Like God.

]]> By: Loren http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2009/07/29/math-in-poetry-poetry-in-math/#comment-30678 Loren Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:27:45 +0000 http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2009/07/29/math-in-poetry-poetry-in-math/#comment-30678 Thanks for the pointer, Sarah. Good luck with the book! --Loren Thanks for the pointer, Sarah. Good luck with the book!

–Loren

]]> By: Sarah http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2009/07/29/math-in-poetry-poetry-in-math/#comment-30676 Sarah Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:53:05 +0000 http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2009/07/29/math-in-poetry-poetry-in-math/#comment-30676 Hi Loren, You might enjoy this poetry anthology: Strange Attractors, Poems of Love and Mathematics, edited by Sarah Glaz and JoAnne Growney, A K Peters Ltd., 2008. Publisher website: http://www.akpeters.com/product.asp?ProdCode=3417 amazon.com website: http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Attractors-Poems-Love-Mathematics/dp/1568813414/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235762902&sr=1-1 Hi Loren,

You might enjoy this poetry anthology: Strange Attractors, Poems of Love and Mathematics, edited by Sarah Glaz and JoAnne Growney, A K Peters Ltd., 2008.

Publisher website:
http://www.akpeters.com/product.asp?ProdCode=3417

amazon.com website:
http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Attractors-Poems-Love-Mathematics/dp/1568813414/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235762902&sr=1-1

]]> By: Autar http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2009/07/29/math-in-poetry-poetry-in-math/#comment-30566 Autar Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:38:46 +0000 http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2009/07/29/math-in-poetry-poetry-in-math/#comment-30566 And if you want to see if the engineering students can wrap too - here is the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRTjkZnZ0Nk And if you want to see if the engineering students can wrap too – here is the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRTjkZnZ0Nk

]]> By: Tim Davis http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2009/07/29/math-in-poetry-poetry-in-math/#comment-30516 Tim Davis Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:46:52 +0000 http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2009/07/29/math-in-poetry-poetry-in-math/#comment-30516 I've enjoyed this recent book that delves into the connections between math and poetry: "Discoverying Patterns in Mathematics and Poetry", Birken & Coon, Rodopi, 2008. http://www.amazon.com/Discovering-Mathematics-Internationale-Vergleichenden-Literaturwissenschaft/dp/9042023708/ It's not a book on poems about math, but a book on the similar patterns in both mathematics and poetry. I’ve enjoyed this recent book that delves into the connections between math and poetry:

“Discoverying Patterns in Mathematics and Poetry”, Birken & Coon, Rodopi, 2008.

http://www.amazon.com/Discovering-Mathematics-Internationale-Vergleichenden-Literaturwissenschaft/dp/9042023708/

It’s not a book on poems about math, but a book on the similar patterns in both mathematics and poetry.

]]> By: Petr http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2009/07/29/math-in-poetry-poetry-in-math/#comment-30514 Petr Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:17:05 +0000 http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2009/07/29/math-in-poetry-poetry-in-math/#comment-30514 Sorry... about halting problem, of course. Petr Sorry… about halting problem, of course.
Petr

]]> By: Petr http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2009/07/29/math-in-poetry-poetry-in-math/#comment-30513 Petr Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:15:58 +0000 http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2009/07/29/math-in-poetry-poetry-in-math/#comment-30513 Hi Loren. What about the poem about the halting theorem? http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/loopsnoop.html Petr Hi Loren.

What about the poem about the halting theorem?
http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/loopsnoop.html

Petr

]]> By: Amin http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2009/07/29/math-in-poetry-poetry-in-math/#comment-30512 Amin Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:31:35 +0000 http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2009/07/29/math-in-poetry-poetry-in-math/#comment-30512 Hi loren, Are you familiar with Hakim Omar Khayyam? He was an Iranian mathematician, philosopher, astronomer and poet. He wrote a several articles, for example a Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra, which laid down the principles of algebra. Modern Iranian calendar is based on his calculation of the solar year as 365.2425 days. His calendar was more accurate than 500 years later the Gregorian calendar. His poetic work famous as the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and translated to English by Edward FitzGerald. You can find more information in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khayyam Hi loren,
Are you familiar with Hakim Omar Khayyam? He was an Iranian mathematician, philosopher, astronomer and poet.
He wrote a several articles, for example a Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra, which laid down the principles of algebra.
Modern Iranian calendar is based on his calculation of the solar year as 365.2425 days. His calendar was more accurate than 500 years later the Gregorian calendar.
His poetic work famous as the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and translated to English by Edward FitzGerald.
You can find more information in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khayyam

]]> By: Steve Eddins http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2009/07/29/math-in-poetry-poetry-in-math/#comment-30506 Steve Eddins Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:00:32 +0000 http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2009/07/29/math-in-poetry-poetry-in-math/#comment-30506 Urs, if you don't want to see the occasional silliness, in which we MathWorks bloggers let our personalities show through ... well, there's always the doc. ;-) Urs, if you don’t want to see the occasional silliness, in which we MathWorks bloggers let our personalities show through … well, there’s always the doc. ;-)

]]> By: Loren http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2009/07/29/math-in-poetry-poetry-in-math/#comment-30505 Loren Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:46:09 +0000 http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2009/07/29/math-in-poetry-poetry-in-math/#comment-30505 Urs- While I understand your desire to have me write about hidden features, and I know there's pent up demand (as you said, see Yair's successful blog (http://undocumentedmatlab.com/), that's an area where I plan to not venture. I don't want to mislead people about what is supported in MATLAB. I do believe there should be ways to get the open files in the editor, find out or set a group to minimized, etc. The best way to make this happen for real is for users to put in enhancement requests so there is an approved MATLAB api for expressing those various notions that would be a supported and documented part of the package. --Loren Urs-

While I understand your desire to have me write about hidden features, and I know there’s pent up demand (as you said, see Yair’s successful blog (http://undocumentedmatlab.com/), that’s an area where I plan to not venture. I don’t want to mislead people about what is supported in MATLAB. I do believe there should be ways to get the open files in the editor, find out or set a group to minimized, etc. The best way to make this happen for real is for users to put in enhancement requests so there is an approved MATLAB api for expressing those various notions that would be a supported and documented part of the package.

–Loren

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