Playing with some shadows, and non-shadows, falling on my carpet, I caught this:
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Math Art: Paper Cutouts
More inspiration from the terrific MoMath talk by Erik Demaine on Math and Origami: during some explorations of the one-cut problem, a student produced this, which we all agreed was beautiful.
This isn’t the only accidental paper art we discovered.
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This is a mind-blowing set of math/art projects by Daniel Walsh.
http://danielwalsh.tumblr.com/
At the right is a visualization of the magnetic field created by a small triangle of buckyball magnets.
There are only a few posts here, but they are fascinating and stunningly beautiful. I hope there are more coming!
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Units Matter
As someone who has long considered himself a “pure math” person, as opposed to more of a “science” person, I never really cared much about the units of expressions; kilograms, meters, Newtons, and the like. The numbers were all I ever really cared about. Well now I see what can happen when this attitude is taken too far.
It took me about 3 days of driving around Puerto Rico before I realized that speed limits were posted in miles per hour and mile markers were posted in kilometers. Driving around a foreign country (territory?) is challenging enough without having to perform a bunch of conversions in your head.
Just to further complicate matters, plenty of signs left it open to driver interpretation.
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“I don’t like math.”
My niece took this photograph. We played around with these magnetic polygons for an hour or so, during which time she showed off her arithmetic skills, impressed me with her ability to estimate and verify, and actively engaged me in a rather sophisticated discussion about infinity.
Then she told me, “I don’t like math.”
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