The strange quest: Mathematics as Concrete Art
Is mathematics just a giant piece of constructive art?
Category Archive: Mathematics
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Use of Mathematics and Hyperscopes
The new “Use of Mathematics” A-level has been hotly debated recently. I would like to start by saying that I agree that things need to be done on this topic. There are some… Continue reading
Mathematical materials
To start with a little housekeeping. I have rather neglected this blog, as the summer science exhibition rather took it out of me. I am also going to retire the unscheduled post tag.… Continue reading
Future of the LMS
I have just posted on the Save the LMS blog. I will repeat it here. A little bit of back story. Towards the end of last year the leaderships of the London Mathematical… Continue reading
Unscheduled Post: The Silver Ratio
John Cook on The Endeavour has just mentioned the wonderful silver ratio. As this is probably my favourite number I can’t resist the chance to put up some pictures. The silver ratio: ,… Continue reading
How do shapes fill space?
One of my main activities at the moment is making toys and materials for an interactive tilings and geometry exhibit at the this year’s Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition. The title is above.… Continue reading
WoW 7: The secret life of numbers
Numbers are one hell of a powerful idea, and some idea of them seems to predate a lot of other intelligence traits. Even young chicks have some ability to count. (this story was… Continue reading
WoW 6: Gorgeous 4d graphics
At some point I should write something about 4d polytopes. They are an incredible work of the human imagination. There are a few places you can find good information on them, just google… Continue reading
WoW 5: Finding numbers
Apologies for no website last week, as you can see from my last post but one I was a little busy. This week we have a technical site, Plouffe’s Inverter, one of those… Continue reading
Building Mathematics: Sculpture system No. 5
[Update 15/1/10: More pictures (in the snow!) now up] [Update 16/3/10: A second sculpture built in Newcastle] [Update 13/5/10: Volcanic background] Can you get children and young people to build mathematical scultptures in… Continue reading
Unscheduled Post: Penrose vs Zeilberger
Being able to see the searches people use to arrive at Maxwell’s Demon can be quite amusing. Two hardy souls even managed to come from a search for Mathematics. Just how deep in… Continue reading
WoW 4: Fractals
I am often a bit rude about fractal art. With the right software it becomes easy to create interesting, attractive, complicated images without much thought to what is happening. It is unfair but… Continue reading