By Susan Sechrist
“…while you don’t need to be an artist to appreciate art, or a musician to love music, our culture seems to insist that only mathematicians do math.” Continue reading
Tag Archives: Lewis Carroll
GO FIGURE: Overthrown
By Susan Sechrist
…unlike the simplest mathematical hyperbola, with its matching twin curves riven and moving toward different infinities, these stories don’t reflect across an obvious boundary condition—there is no simple, congruent image on the other side… Continue reading
GO FIGURE: Not “an Atom of Meaning in It…”
By Susan Sechrist
“Who in the world am I?… I’m sure I’m not Ada… and I’m sure I can’t be Mabel, for I know all sorts of things, and she, oh! She knows such a very little! Besides, she’s she and I’m I and – oh dear, how puzzling it all is!…” Continue reading
GO FIGURE: Proof of Concept
By Susan Sechrist
The older we get, with maturity and wisdom, the more adventurous we can become. The segregation of complex ideas into distinct categories ceases to be useful or even necessary – what we once feared or needed some semblance of control over becomes the very source of our later-in-life creativity. Continue reading
The Terriblest Poet
by Brian Bouldrey
Yet, dare I say it? I do!—He got a lot of it right in his poetry: tragic and celebratory subjects, the declamatory mode, and emotion, all the emotion an exclamation point can generate. . . . I have never been afraid to make a fool of myself, just like McGonagall. Continue reading
Other Bloomers & Shakers: Julia Margaret Cameron, The Soul Stealer
by Nicole Wolverton
Cameron was not always a photographer. She was not an ingénue in the arts. Rather, she was born into an aristocratic family of British and French origin . . . [I]t was only when Cameron’s daughter and son-in-law gave her a camera for her 48th birthday in 1863 that Cameron earned notoriety of her own. Continue reading
