Category Archives: mathematics

Escherism

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

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blog vector

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

Bias for heads in euro coins? More study needed.

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my pet programming project

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

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traipse

Ray-Traced Sphere — the old-fashioned way!

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behind the digits

Got an approximation to a real number, and want to know what formula is hidden behind it? Try Plouffe’s Inverter.

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counting the unseen

politechbot.com: AAAS statistician testifies at Milosevic trial in The Hague

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