Simon Beck likes to walk in snow in giant mathematical patterns.
February 21, 2012
June 24, 2011
The story of the Gömböc - the world’s first self-righting object that is convex and has uniform density, recently discovered by mathematicians.
May 9, 2011
April 21, 2011
If you release a magnetic pendulum somewhere in the vicinity of 3 magnets (represented by black dots), which magnet will the pendulum end up at rest over? Interesting visualization of a “butterfly effect”. via Magnetic Pendulum Strange Attractor
March 26, 2011
Surface Detail - 3d fractal art
March 7, 2011
January 4, 2011
Flowers and polar coordinates
Golan Levin, my old teacher, turns flowers into surreal panoramas.
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December 17, 2010
October 11, 2010
Benford’s Law: For any power-law distribution of values, the frequency of the digits 1 through 9 occurring as the first digit of a random value is not at all random - it actually follows this chart. This applies to “electricity bills, street addresses, stock prices, population numbers, death rates, lengths of rivers, …”
It makes sense when I think about it, but I would never have thought about it on my own.
September 13, 2010
July 6, 2010
March 2, 2010
"V: Then, do you recognize there’s a difference between .002 dollars and .002 cents?
A: No."
A: No."
— Division and Its Discontents - Stephen Strogatz explains fractions. Part of an ongoing series of how we should be learning the maths.
February 12, 2010
“Rosemarie Fiore outfits amusement park rides with airbrushes that record the patterns made by the ride’s revolutions. “
