Category Archives: mathematics

gadgeteer at play

Posted on Sunday, 2002 May 05 by Anton

Matthias Wandel’s insane constructions (link from AlterSlash). From the same site: some surprisingly effective mathematical drawings.

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where they stood

Posted on Thursday, 2002 May 02 by Anton

Animation of Congress. For those three of you who haven’t seen it: Keith Poole‘s team at U.Houston tabulated the roll-call votes in Congress from 1879 to 1998 and did a factor analysis; the two dimensions shown in the animation are … Continue reading →

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Escherism

Posted on Monday, 2002 April 29 by Anton

Tessellating Animations, some quite witty. (Cited by Plokta and BoingBoing)

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blog vector

Posted on Sunday, 2002 April 28 by Anton

Angela Vierling is a grad student, studying algebraic geometry; and she has a blog. Sadly, it’s not very active. August 2003: It’s a lot more active than it was. October 2004: it’s gone, but she saved some archives.

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travelling gamblers cautioned

Posted on Friday, 2002 April 26 by Anton

Bias for heads in euro coins? More study needed.

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my pet programming project

Posted on Thursday, 2002 April 25 by Anton

Over several years now I have worked sporadically to catalog hypothetical fullerenes — i.e. convex closed surfaces built of pentagons and hexagons. Last year I tossed out my old work in C to start over in Python, whose list primitive … Continue reading →