Today’s Challenge: Describe this surface mathematically!
Appreciation
Velocidad Maxima
So if the maximum velocity allowed is 25, does that mean I can go as fast as I want in reverse?
History Resources
Mathematical Biographies
This is a comprehensive library of on-line biographies of mathematicians, brought to you by the School of Math and Statistics at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/BiogIndex.html
This is a truly remarkable resource. It looks as though they have thousands of mathematicians in the database, and you can search the biographies by author, region, area, or mathematical topic.
Each entry contains a bio, a list of publications, awards, pictures, and other related materials. You can also check out their famous curves index.
Bravo, SMSUSAS! This is the kind of thing that the internet was really made for.
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Geometry Resources
Cool Knot Animations
This is a nice collection of some lovely mathematical images and animations:
There are some knot animations, some 3-D fractals, and some cool surfaces. It seems as though these images and animations were generated in Maple.
There are also some nice images generated in some kind of ray-tracing program that may or may not be called vort.
Vort could also be the name of the person who created all these images. I’m not sure; my Dutch isn’t very good.
Application Challenge
Menu Deconstruction Challenge
I have always been fascinated with menus, and one of my favorite pastimes is analyzing menus for price discrepancies.
For example, how many different prices can you spot Wendy’s charging here for the same Meal Combo upgrade?
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