Pies and Pi – the hidden formula
Pi is a wonderful, fabulous, and famously irrational number. It even knows when you’re hungry, as the below mathematical equation amply demonstrates. As comedy maths puzzlers go, this one is a little forced, but nevertheless fun to share. I confess it took The God of Whizz a few goes to figure out that Pi = [...]
Read the whole postNature by numbers – beauty in maths
Stop everything. Watch ‘Nature by Numbers’. See the mathematical beauty in the natural world and the elegant, complex structures that arise from simple rules. [Props to Keat, via BoingBoing] Now carry on.
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Maths in Nature – artist and mathematician Nikki Graziano has a rather nice selection of images of so-called ‘found functions’, or superimpositions of graphed functions over shapes in nature. Some of them look a little contrived, but nevertheless almost give you the idea of the numbers that lie just below the surface of everything. And [...]
Read the whole postFun Geometry for Maths Geeks
Voronoi Diagrams explain much more than their apparently random patterns seem to indicate. With the help of a pen, paper, ruler, set-square and some patience, you can make your very own honeycomb-like Voronoi Diagram (via Metafilter).
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Not what you might generally expect to read on a Friday, but a reminder of an elegant geometry puzzle in today’s Financial Times letters page. Take a square of 8 x 8 units = 64 square units. Divide it into two triangles of 3 units x 8 units and two polygons with two sides of [...]
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Courtesy of Miazagora’s Homeschool Minutes, a fantastically bad geometry pun. The wives of three English country gentlemen all became pregnant at about the same time. Two of these gentlemen provided the traditional cow hide as a bedcovering, while the third gentleman sent off to Africa for a hippopotamus skin to use as a bed covering [...]
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