Category Archives: sciences

another mathematical toy

Posted on Friday, 2003 August 22 by Anton

The Surface Evolver has been updated. I used the previous version (now four years old) to make this ‘soap film’.

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kissing spheres

Posted on Friday, 2003 August 15 by Anton

Er, whatever you say there, Swen. Glad to know someone is still watching.

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Dandelin spheres

Posted on Friday, 2003 August 15 by Anton

Hop David illustrates and animates some theorems about conics.

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troops overly supported

Posted on Friday, 2003 August 15 by Anton

Government and the godawful greatest generation: Bob Smith traces a cluster of social ills to veterans’ benefits post 1945. (Link updated 2006.)

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naming the polytopes

Posted on Monday, 2003 August 11 by Anton

The Pythagoreans, legend has it, saw each of the regular solids as a symbol of one of the elements: tetrahedron fire, octahedron air, icosahedron water, cube earth — leaving the dodecahedron to stand for the universe, or quintessence, or spirit. … Continue reading →

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transportation disasters of the future

Posted on Sunday, 2003 August 10 by Anton

Blaise Gassend charts what happens to an object that falls from the Space Elevator.

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unorthodox medium

Posted on Wednesday, 2003 August 06 by Anton

Genes on paper. Is anyone else reminded of blotter acid?

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