Anand Bora
The purpose of this page is to collect the mathematical poems of Anand Bora
Cleanliness
Love and Life
Paradigm Poems
The purpose of this page is to collect the mathematical poems of Anand Bora
Cleanliness
Love and Life
Paradigm Poems
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 8:24 PM 0 comments
Labels: Anand Bora
Today’s Blog entry is a bit different due to most of my polyaesthetic pieces are printed at 24” X 36” maximum size and this one is 108” X 108”. Generally I print a lambda Duratran to be displayed in an easily manageable Light-box however today’s piece one will require one huge box.
The first image shows the piece in full. There is nothing wrong with your monitor the piece is totally white light with the exception of a piece of imperceptible text that if properly displayed would be 1 inch high and 2.5 inches long. The second image visibly shows the text which lies at the center of the field.
“Venerate Your Experience – Not This” is the title of this poem. The poem is a similar triangles poem that has been transposed into a different identity … Why don’t you see if you can put it back into the similar triangles poem form as well transposing it into other synonymous syntactical forms.
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 11:29 PM 3 comments
Labels: Buddhism, similar triangles poems
After some more (noisy mind) thoughts about not thinking; I feel the poem from the last blog entry should be considered as a relationship stated in a general condition (without direct value or value in a positive or negative sense) furthermore, I think the poem would be easier read in the specific condition. So I have a new version in the specific condition. (see above)
The mathematical structure remains the same as the last poem and can be seen on the last blog entry.
The Poem is derived as such:
Starting with the ideas that the Splash is to the Waveless Old Pond as Frog is to No Self and as Noisey mind is to clear Mind. Which is set up mathematically as:
Splash/Waveless Old Pond = Frog/No Self = Noisy Mind/Clear Mind
and arbitrarily choosing to use flavor five from the expanded similar triangles poem examples we can see that the next line can be set up as g/h = a-d/b-e
Which translates as:
Splash / Waveless Old Pond = (Frog - Noisy Mind)/( No Self- Clear Mind)
The variables are as such:
Frog =a
No Self =b
Noisy Mind=d
Clear Mind= e
Splash=g
Waveless Old Pond=h
An aesthetic decision to solve for a and using the third example from flavor five yields: a= g(b-e)/h + d
Therefore:
Frog = (Splash(No Self – Clear Mind)/ Waveless Old Pond) + Noisy Mind
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 5:17 PM 4 comments
Labels: Basho, Buddhism, Expanded Similar Triangles Poem, haiku
Everyone seems to have had their way with poor Basho’s poem. I am not going to be pretentious enough to call this ‘haiku’ however, this expanded similar triangles poem was inspired by the wisdom that I have gleaned from my experience with Basho's poem.
The Poem is derived as such:
Starting with the ideas that the Frog is to The Self as Noise is to The Mind and as Splash is to the Old Pond Which can be set up mathematically as:
Frog/The Self = Noise/The Mind = Splash/Old Pond
and choosing (aesthetic decision) to use flavor five from the expanded similar triangles poem examples we can see that the next line is set up as g/h = a-d/b-e
Or:
Splash / The Old Pond = (Frog - Noise)/( Self- The Mind)
The variables are as such:
Frog =a
The Self =b
Noise=d
The Mind= e
Splash=g
The Old Pond=h
Furthermore, to solve for a or choosing to use the third example from flavor five yields: a= g(b-e)/h + d
Therefore:
Frog = (Splash(The Self – The Mind)/ The Old Pond) + Noise
After some more (noisy mind) thoughts about not thinking; I feel that I should mention that the poem above is stated in a general condition furthermore, I think the poem may be seen easier in the specific condition. So I have a new version in the specific condition. Please see the next blog entry for the specific condition.
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 11:50 PM 8 comments
Labels: Basho, Expanded Similar Triangles Poem, haiku
Here is a Similar Triangles Poem titled "Man"- inspired by my conversations with Timo Gilbert.
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 11:55 PM 7 comments
Labels: Man, similar triangles poems, Timo Gilbert
Here is a "Similar Triangles Poem" titled Minimalist Poetry.
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 11:43 PM 0 comments
Labels: Minimalist Poetry, similar triangles poems
Quote from Mock Paper Scissors:
(Failed song-and-dance man turned cowboy icon, John Wayne X Beverly Hillbilly Jethro Bodine) Divided by top banana Bonzo and his presidential second billing, Ronald Reagan = Chimpy McStagger.
Quote from Mock Paper Scissors:
(Crazed psycho founder of the murderous Manson Clan, Charles Manson) + (Crazed founder of the follow-the-meteor Heaven’s Gate Death Cult, Marshall Applewhite) X (the Jonestown Cult’s favorite beverage) = Crazed founder of the 700 Club, and one-time GOP Presidential Candidate, Pat Robertson
The Australian Math poet Pioh has turned us on to some more wonderful stuff. Thank you Pioh!!
These are a perfect example of Math poetry in politics. Click here for the entire site http://www.mockpaperscissors.com – there are many more of these so please check it out. If you sit on the left you will find them extremely funny. If you sit on the right you may be disgusted. I am politically moderate however I am left of center so the two posted here are my favorites.
Enjoy
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 9:45 PM 1 comments
Labels: mockpaperscissors, TT.O.
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 11:55 PM 12 comments
Labels: Expanded Similar Triangles Poem
Marc-Anthony
( Aberration + BonhomieNebulosity)/ Nebulosity = Xenobiotic http://piptalk.com/pip/Forum7/HTML/000787.html
Roland Barthes
Writing Degree Zero
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6160074/Barthes-Poetic-Writing
Sherman Alexie
"Poetry = anger x imagination."
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/One-Stick-Song/Sherman-Alexie/e/9781882413768
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 11:46 PM 0 comments
Labels: Marc-Anthony, Roland Barthes, Sherman Alexie
The following four images comprise a new minimalist visual poem by Karl Kempton. It could easily be said that each slide is a separate poem as well. I would like to draw our attention to the first slide which certainly can be viewed as mathematical poem in its own right. What is signature in this first slide (poem) is Karl’s use of text (there is no image as a rendering, there is just text, yet the images come through). It has a lot of the same simple and elegant features that remind me of Marton Koppany’s work.
The other three slides add an artistic breadth to the original idea in the first slide. It’s a very nice piece Karl! Thanks!
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 12:45 AM 2 comments
Labels: Karl Kempton, mathematical visual poetry
Science does not dispel spirituality rather it points the direction of its next incarnation.
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 12:40 AM 2 comments
Labels: science and art
The purpose of this blog entry is to collect pieces by Ed Schenk.
i^4
Predestination / Karma / Reincarnation
Ed Schenk's World
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 12:31 AM 0 comments
I would like to bring our attention to another very interesting piece (above) by the Dutch artist Ed Schenk. This one is titled “i to the fourth power” and it connotes an infinite loop of ignorance as well as asking a couple of questions. His question makes me think about asking more questions like the ones below. Can one answer be expressed as rational and the other irrational … can we express one type of ignorance being more rational and another type being more irrational?
Hmmmmm
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 10:39 PM 2 comments
Labels: Ed Schenk
The following text are expressions by the Dutch Mathematical Poet, Ed Schenk
Predestination / karma / reincarnation
Some agnostics define death as:
death = life – life axiom 1)
In many religions the believe is there is something after or above death. This could be written as:
death ≠ 0 axiom 2)
Now if axiom 1 and axiom 2 are simultaneous valid, this leads to the postulate:
life ≠ life
This looks contradictory, however if we introduce the element time, axiom 1 could be written as:
death = life(n+1) – life(n),
where n is the current life. Moving variables yields: life(n+1) = life(n) + death. This could be written as:
next life = this life + death (predestination)
or
this life = next life – death This formula looks a bit strange, however this is due to semantics. If we take into account that time is not necessarily linear we could replace the word ‘next’ by the word ‘another’.
This leads to: this life = another life – death (karma)
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 11:29 PM 4 comments
Labels: axiomatic poems, death, Ed Schenk, karma, life, Peano Axioms
Mathmatickles by Betsy Franco
I would like to speak a bit about the book Mathematickles by Betsy Franco. The book is a wonderful collection of Mathematical Poetry showing addition poems, subtraction poems, long division poems, and multiplication poems. What I find refreshing about the poems is that they are constructed in a way that you can tell that Franco knows the difference between addition and multiplication in Mathematical Poetry for these poems are obviously not thrown together without thought. This may not seem like a big deal however, I find a lot of confusion about this topic among some intellectuals much less the general public. I think this book is an outstanding book for teaching young students how to use math as a language and have fun doing it. I would recommend it to all primary school teachers who are teaching math.
About Betsy:
Betsy Franco, a writer and a member of Suburban Squirrel comedy troupe, has written over eighty books-young adult novels, picture books, poetry, and nonfiction. A graduate of Stanford University, with an M.Ed from Lesley College, she particularly loves to show people how sassy, beautiful, and creative math can be. Her latest book is Bees, Snails, and Peacock Tails about geometry in nature. Mathematickles, also published by Simon & Schuster, was inspired by Bob Grumman's mathemaku and long division poetry. Metamorphosis, a novel illustrated by her son Tom, is forthcoming in fall 2009.
To give young adults a voice, she has compiled four anthologies of their work including: You Hear Me? poems and writing by teenage boys, and Falling Hard, 100 love poems by teenagers, published by Candlewick Press.
Betsy lives in Palo Alto, California, with her husband Doug who shares her interest in math. They have three creative sons, James and Dave (actor/writers) and Tom (sculptor, illustrator). See www.betsyfranco.com.
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 6:57 PM 2 comments
I would like to introduce the long division poem structure to this blog. The structure has been used for quite a few years primarily by Bob Grumman. It is similar to an orthogonal space poem with the exception that it uses a remainder. Because of its simplicity Betsy Franco and others including teachers have used it to help children play with mathematical ideas in the form of language. I think this is an excellent way to give children a fun way to play with poetic ideas and at the same time introduce them to the idea of applied mathematics. Here is a Christmas poem and one of my favorites by Bob Grumman:
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 1:02 AM 6 comments
Labels: Bob Grumman, The Long Division Poem
This blog entry is to share a few moments and images of the AMS and MAA Joint Meeting held this year in Washington D.C. The first lonely image is a view from my hotel room bed as I tried to get to sleep by counting the sheep jumping over the Washington Monument. The weather for the most part was cold and rainy and made my three-quarter mile walk to the conference a little trying at times. However the last day was nice and offered the image below which was shot from my hotel room window as the sun was rising in the east.
The shot below is a 180 degree panoramic view of 21 images sewn together to provide an overview of the entire show of mathart. The show is always modestly done due to its modest budget (relative to art galleries) but it is always done well and the people who work on it are wonderful enthusiastic individuals who feel mathart can make a difference. They even gave out prizes this year.
The shot below is of the past president of the Mathematical Association of America, Joseph Gallian as he was browsing the show.
JoAnne Growney and Sarah Glaz recently edited an anthology of mathematical love poems titled “Strange Attractors”. The book was published by AK Peters and can be seen in the above photo at the bottom right of the image. Also in the photo are Klaus Peters (left) and his lovely wife Alice (Thus AK). The conference also provided a poetry reading session to deliver poems from the book. The event was organized by co-editor JoAnne and you can see the crowd gathering for the reading in the image below.
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 11:12 PM 2 comments
Labels: American Mathematical Society, JoAnne Growney, prometheus, Pushcart Prize in Poetry, Reza Sarhangi, Robert Fathauer, Sarah Glaz
Karl Kempton has expanded his mathematical paradigm poem “My Big Mouth” into a polyaesthetic series show below. Very nice Karl! I especially like the last image which I would love to see at the bridges show in Banff this summer.
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 12:04 AM 2 comments
Labels: Karl Kempton, Mathematical Paradigm Poems
Karl Kempton has sent me a paradigm mathematical poem (above) in response to the last two blog posts; so let's look at it. The image shows the volume of a ellipsoidal solid with the three ellipse radii defined metaphorically. The first radii is a value of "lack of forethought" and the second being an radius of "ego" and the last radii being the ratio of "attachment" divided by "humility" and all of this is equal to "my big mouth".
Thanks Karl for illuminating my problem :)
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 7:20 PM 0 comments
Labels: Karl Kempton, similar triangles poems
I am sure that most of our general population will find this discussion pointless but those interested in language, visual language and mathematical poetry should not. We use addition and multiplication in our language everyday but most are not aware of it. I think a person could spend their entire life devoted just to the concept of exploring the ideas presented in this one blog post (I am serious). We are just scratching the surface of the possibilities with our few examples shown in this blog. It is not trivial to ponder the differences in addition and multiplication for they are crucial to our existence through our everyday decisions. However, I can agree that in mathematical poetry we are taking these operations into the nebulous areas of art and art aesthetics. Numbers are clear and easy to manipulate with mathematical operations however, extrapolating them into the realm of images or concepts is much more difficult and it is even more difficult to say something new and interesting with it.
This blog post is an extension from my last post where I was trying to clarify the difference between addition and multiplication in the context of mathematical poetry. The best way to approach this is to start by viewing the blog entry
Our example (above) in this blog post concerns the three images in the original work found at the blog of artpolice. (which seems to have disappeared) My original statement was that the images are an example of using multiplication in mathematical poetry as opposed to using addition. What I have done here is to show the work corrected with the proper operational sign and also create a little piece showing a solution to the problem if indeed it were done with addition.
The Image below was submitted by the math poet PI. O. --- He obviously knows the difference between addition and multiplication of images as well as the artist Tisa Bryant. Thank you PI. O.!
This wonderful image is a work by Tisa Bryant, titled "Slave Lady" and will be part of the show:
WHEN DOES IT OR YOU BEGIN? (MEMORY AS INNOVATION)
Festival of Writing, Performance, & Video
JANUARY 9 – FEBRUARY 1, 2009
Curated by Amina Cain & Jennifer Karmin
at Links Hall
3435 N. Sheffield Avenue
Chicago, IL
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Labels: Addition, Chicago, Jennifer Karmin, Multiplication, the difference between additon and multiplication, Tisa Bryant