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Written for a general audience, Patterns in Mathematics and Poetry (Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam) is the result of their unlikely partnership and lengthy collaboration. The book grew from the course ...
In their book Discovering Patterns in Mathematics and Poetry, Marcia Birken and Anna C. Koon rightly provide other examples of poet-mathematicians that history has witnessed: Eratosthenes of ...
And yet, at the same time, those theorems are often extremely strange and counter-intuitive. Some people find math boring. As these examples show, it's anything but. Random Patterns ...
A UB study characterizes two-dimensional wave patterns, such as the undular bores seen in a Chinese river, that move along ...
Patterns are predictable sequences, such as stripes (for example, a yellow-green striped shirt) and rhythms (for example, da-de-dum). Young children like to make patterns when they draw and play.