Bob Grumman Christmas Poem

I think this is Bob's best work and I always like to post it around Christmas.

Holiday Humor

Here is a little holiday math humor sent to me by John Chalmers

I over ate.

Jeff Koons Versus Kog

I wanted to create an art that automatically the viewer could realize that they didn’t have to bring anything to the table other than themselves right at that moment.

Jeff Koons

This quote from Koons is the perfect statement about the goal of ‘pure’ Art. – And therefore the opposite of ‘pure’ Kog.

Mathematical poetry lives in the realm of ‘pure’ Kog

Mathematical visual poetry is in between ‘pure’ Art and ‘pure’ Kog yet lives much closer to ‘pure’ Kog.

Hendiadys

Is Hendiadys an operation of addition or multiplication in mathematical poetry?

Syncopation

Back in the early 1980's, inspired by the percussionist Bill Bruford, I wrote a math equation mapping the levels of power in syncopation. I have misplaced the equation but I do remember the resulting epiphany for me:

 Anticipation and surprise are the active ingredients in syncopation. (Thesis / Antithesis)

Nu Math by Karl Kempton