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# Posts

### May 22, 2015

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Cubistic Singularity   by Ivan Doncevic   http://im-possible.info/english/art/pencil/ivan-doncevic.html#cubistic-singularity   Author - http://webbugt.deviantart.com/
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KrazyDad is a website choc full of mathematics based puzzles Many of these were featured in my blog post about maths puzzles a few months ago.
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If you read the books or watched the movies, you get the sense that Frodo and Sam walked pretty far to toss that ring in the fire. Imgur user mattsawizard…Tags: humor, Lord of the Rings
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Data art is on the rise. Jacoba Urist for the Atlantic gets into the beginnings and its current prevalence. Art is a constant march of expansion, according to Harvey Molotch,…Tags: Atlantic, rise
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(Click on the comic if you can't see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2015, C. Burke.My other choice: Every Kirk has his Gorn . . . The more I think about it, I might've gotten enough sci-fi references to fill that in, had I tried, had I tried ... Damn it, Jim! Meanwhile, 80s Week continues. Come back often for more funny math and geeky comics.
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a-search-for-beauty: Torus Knot

### May 21, 2015

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via VisualizingMath
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Tattoos by il bue   http://im-possible.info/english/art/misc/tattoo/il-bue.html   Author - http://ilbuetattoo.tumblr.com/
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Fascinating website pairing music with hypnotising visual spirals,  circles and general mathematical patterns.
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physicistsneedlovetoo: Carl Friedrich Gauss
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scieastereggs: The Monty Python Method for Generating Random Variables
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a-search-for-beauty: Torus Knot
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curiosamathematica: In dynamical systems, a bifurcation occurs when a small change made to the parameter values of a system causes a sudden qualitative or topological change in its behaviour. The name “bifurcation” was first introduced by Henri Poincaré in 1885 in the first paper in mathematics showing such a behavior.Even in simple systems such as the logistic map, bifurcations can arise and introduce chaos. A rough description of chaos is that chaotic systems exhibit a great sensitivity […]
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Hannah Fairfield, who does graphics at the New York Times, talks about using visualization to show specific narratives. Something more than just "here's some data."…Tags: Hannah Fairfield, lunch talk
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trigonometry-is-my-bitch: Swing-hinged dissection, or simply Hinged dissection, is the geometric dissection in which all of the pieces are connected into a chain by hinged points, such that the rearrangement from one figure to another can be carried out by swinging the chain continuously, without severing any of the connections.Hinged dissections were popularised by author of mathematical puzzles, Henry Dudeney. He introduced the famous hinged dissection of a square into a triangle in his […]
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Computers can calculate an infinite number of colors, but our brains can only process and see so much. This is why color spaces are important in visualization. Your code might…Tags: color
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trigonometry-is-my-bitch: classymathematics: Hi guys, I’ve had this idea recently and I definitely need your help. If you start with a line and at both ends add lines such that they are perpendicular to the first one (like on the second picture) and then repeat this process infintely, you get a geometrical figure that seems rather random (not sure if it can be considered as a fractal though). The first 3 images show the 3 first steps ; the fourth one is the result after 8 iterations, […]
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isomorphismes: diffeomorphic things by Guillemin & Pollack, Differential Topology

### May 20, 2015

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Last month, This American Life ran a story about research that asked if you could change people's mind about issues like same-sex marriage and abortion — with just a 22-minute…Tags: fake data, retracted
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“Progression of face-turning dodecahedron puzzles at different cut depths, showing when new piece types emerge and vanish.” via TheMathKid
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I was shown this innovative way to perform fraction division using bar modelling today. I previously thought bar modelling for this topic didn’t really work. As did many others. I think it’s pretty clever. Convert the fractions into equivalents with … Continue reading →
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Great website full of resources to make much cooler tessellations than you proabbly did before. Very Escher of course! There’s a lot in this site. Use the top menu to navigate through. The most useful stuff I found was under … Continue reading →
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I was toying around with the idea of multivariate beer, where the ingredients varied by county demographics. Could I taste the difference? Here's how the experiment went.Tags: beer

### May 19, 2015

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isomorphismes: 1 + 2 ≠ 3 A plane is two-dimensional A line is one-dimensional A box is three-dimensional But plane + line is not three-dimensional. 2 + 1 ≠ 3.
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So first a thanks to Gregory Taylor (@mathtans) of Canada -- I'll get you for this, even as five other educators are preparing to get me -- for including me in his list of five “Twitter Stars”, following his own nomination by Chris Smith (@aap03102) in Scotland. I'm in NYC, so we've crossed the pond and come down across the border, eh? I first heard about this Challenge in Greg's tweet. A little more about Greg: We first met when he stumbled across my webcomic, and he let me know about a […]
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I made 4 templates to stop me going crazy every time I start a new PPoint for a lecture. I’ll make more as time goes on, but here they are: WordPress won’t let me upload the file type, so they’re … Continue reading →
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Artworks by Maria Red'ko   http://im-possible.info/english/art/various/maria-redko.html