Category Archives: mathematics

Doctor Matrix’s little helpers

Ed Pegg writes: I’d like to do a “behind the scenes” look at Mathematical Games for an article. Martin [Gardner] did lots, but he avidly used a lot of help from hundreds of people. I’d like to write an article … Continue reading

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Randome

Dick Fischbeck has a new website for a kind of structure that he calls Randome, formed of overlapping shallow cones.

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all of you, you’re nothing but random seeds!

On BART today, a fellow passenger saw me making notes on paper and occasionally looking up, and got the idea that I was taking statistics on the passengers. No, I said, I’m doing math for my own entertainment. He sat … Continue reading

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squished hypertorus

This is intended to be an orthographic projection of a stereographic projection from S5 (the five-dimensional surface of a sphere in six-dimensional space) into E5 (flat five-space) of the cartesian product S2 × S2, a kind of torus. The colors … Continue reading

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Knuth to speak

Don Knuth: Computer Musings

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two dimensions of opinion

In November I linked to a “Political Compass” and mentioned some improvements I’d like to see. Chris Lightfoot apparently had already made them. Rather than assigning preconceived interpretations to the questions, Lightfoot waited until a large number of people had … Continue reading

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not a butterfly’s wing

Voronoi cells of nodes of the golden sector spiral, colored according to three different cycles (one for each primary), all with irrational periods.

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