My love of binder clips makes me appreciate this binder clip sphere even more.
This is another excellent installment of Math Monday at Make Magazine by George Hart, curator of the Museum of Mathematics.
You can find the instructions here.
This is a beautiful slideshow highlighting 2010 in Found Math, from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA).
http://www.maa.org/community/columns/maa-found-math/2010-maa-found-math-gallery
This is a really cool project–catching photos of the math all around us–and there are a lot of really beautiful pictures here. Keep your cameras on you!
Maybe I’ll submit a few of mine next year; perhaps the shadow tetrahedron, or the parabolic hillside.
This is a wonderful demonstration of the scale of the universe.
http://primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/
By zooming in and out, you travel through space-time comparing and contrasting objects with magnitudes on the order of galaxies, planets, humans, atoms, and strings. A really creative and beautiful application.
I’m surprised that there aren’t more hexagons around town. It really is a lovely shape.
