![]() The judges felt that their own words were inadequate to summarize Julia’s achievement in writing “Math Person.” Let us simply say, read her poem and experience it for yourself.Īpoorva Panidapu is a 16-year-old mathematics student, artist, and advocate for youth and gender minorities in STEAM. I want to go back into that auditorium and finish the exam and talk about it all night. I don’t want to be patted on the shoulder and misunderstood. Not seeing what it was all for, wishing – but never working up the guts to push – for more. I’m someone who sat through the slow-drip of middle school math, bored and daydreaming, Mom offers to stop by Panera as a treat for all the painful math that I’ve just endured. “Math Person” conveys – in ways both beautiful and haunting – the isolation Julia felt as one of the only girls in the American Math Competition 10th grade and, more profoundly, the intellectual isolation she still feels every day as someone who loves math deeply yet lacks a friend with whom to share it. Julia Schanan’s entry for the Strogatz Prize was a free-verse poem titled “Math Person.” The judges were moved by the poem’s artistry and emotional power, its depth and raw honesty, its brilliant use of language, and its eye for the unexpected but telling detail. This article first appeared on Make: Online, June 17, 2013. What shape would the resulting kite arch take on? Answers to - I’ll give a shout out to the first correct one received. And suppose further that every kite experienced the same force from the wind, and that both ends of the string were attached to the ground. ![]() X,” simply shows an unusual and striking three-dimensional geometry: And the final photo “Crazy Eddy” actually shows a very large geometric structure constructed out of 208 kite-shaped kites interconnected by string: This photo begs our final question of the day: suppose you had a single long (idealized weightless) string with many kites attached at equal intervals along the string. The first example is a kite called “Oops” which is made from six scalene triangles, no two sides the same length: Although the word “kite” when used as a mathematical term for a particular sort of shape means “a quadrilateral with two pairs of adjacent equal edges,” Terry wanted to re-emphasize the fact that a kite does not have to be a kite, so to speak. We’re going to start with photos sent by Terry Thillman in response to Geometry Takes Flight Terry built all of the kites pictured below. ![]() Math Mondays has been accumulating a lot of mail from all you fellow makers out there with a mathematical bent so today’s installment marks the beginning of a series (the length of which depends on how much more mail you all send) based on readers’ responses to earlier columns. ![]()
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