Math Photo: Triangles on the Beach
While on the beach one day, I found a triangular rock. So I started on some beach relief.
Then I iterated.
And I iterated again.
And I continued to iterate, until the whole beach was one big Sierpinski Triangle!
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Math Photo: A Most Mathematical Building
Here are some images from Harpa, in Reykjavík, Iceland. Harpa is home to the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the Icelandic Opera, and is one of the most mathematical buildings I have ever seen. The face Read more…
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Cody Johnson · December 29, 2011 at 8:54 pm
Sierpinski!!!
Ronald Fischman · May 6, 2014 at 8:46 pm
You might recognize that this makes an infinite tessellation, not to mention a problem in visualizing obverse and reverse. Didn’t Waldemar Sierpinski beat Frank Shorter in to 1972 Olympic Marathon? Oh, I think that was Cierpinski, but what’s a sibilant between friends?