Last Tuesday evening mathematician Charles Hadlock offered an excellent lecture -- "Sustainability and Collapse" -- at the MAA Carriage House. Hadlock's presentation offered examples and arguments from his recently published book, Six ...

During my doctoral study days at the University of Oklahoma I knew several mathematicians who were working on graph theory problems -- and a couple of them worked on problems related to the Four Color Conjecture -- a conjecture (dating b...

Are you looking for a poem on a particular math topic? One search strategy is to go to the Poetry Foundation website (another is to click on the green SEARCH BOX in the right column of this blog) and enter your math term into the search...

Scroll down to find titles and dates of posts in 2013. At the bottom are links to posts through 2012 and 2011 -- and all the way back to March 2010 when this blog was begun. This link leads to a PDF file that lists searchable topics...

Maximizing Meaning (maybe)Howmanysyllableswill fit on thissingle line segment?_____________________________________________________Will I maximize mycommunication if Iuse multi-syllable words thatsqueeze sounds into rippling melodies,or ...

Not Getting It by JoAnne GrowneyWewant tobe cool.We want coolrooms, drinks. Withcool mindsets we “forget” that we said, we’ll cutemissions ofgreenhouse gases 17 percentby 2020.Instead, power plantsburn fossil fuelsthat spew pollut...

We viewers of the world see it through a variety of lenses -- for some of us music shapes our view, for others it is color, for others history; still others see through a lens of mathematics -- perhaps geometry, or number, or randomizat...

As I have mentioned previously, April is National Poetry Month and also Mathematics Awareness Month -- and the mathematical focus is "Mathematics of Sustainability." To try to connect these April celebrations, I went to the website www...

Frequent readers of this blog probably know that Miroslav Holub is one of my favorite poets. And it was a great delight to get a recent e-mail message with a link to a previously unpublished 1994 interview with this scientist and poet -...

April is National Mathematics Awareness Month. The theme is SUSTAINABILITY and some ideas for learning and doing may be found here (including a rich selection of essays).April is National Poetry Month. One of the month's special events...