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Science News
July 21, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Art of Pursuit The simple mathematical concept of a pursuit curve can serve as the starting point for creating wonderfully intricate artistic designs...   |
Science News
September 20, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Rolling with Reuleaux Amazingly, the circle isn't the only shape that would work safely as a manhole cover. In fact, any shape of constant width would do, and there are infinitely many such shapes. The simplest example is the Reuleaux triangle, named after distinguished mechanical engineer Franz Reuleaux. |
Science News
November 30, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Fold-and-Cut Magic Accordion folds and judicious cutting can produce a string of paper dolls or a variety of geometric patterns. This activity also suggests a mathematical question. |
Science News
February 9, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Algebraic Hearts One of the marvels of mathematics is the way in which an austere equation can unexpectedly blossom into an appealing geometric shape when represented graphically... |
Science News
January 25, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Chemical Dissections In recreational mathematics, a geometric dissection involves cutting a geometric figure into pieces that you can reassemble into another figure. Now, chemists have gotten into the dissection game, as a novel strategy for getting small objects to assemble themselves into different regular forms. |
Science News
November 25, 2000
Ivars Peterson |
Square of the Hypotenuse A history of the well-traveled and perpetually youthful Pythagorean Theorem... |
Science News
December 8, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
The Math Hatter and More Looking for a cool gift for someone mathematically inclined? An unusual, conversation-generating token of appreciation? The World Wide Web offers a number of intriguing possibilities -- if you know where to stop and shop... |
Science News
July 22, 2000
Ivars Peterson |
Turtle Tracks Using the computer language LOGO, children can produce a list of commands to govern the motion of a "turtle" and trace out a geometric track on the computer screen. Mathematicians can use similar algorithms to generate fractals and other forms. |
Science News
January 4, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Sound-Byte Math Music Swedish composer Daniel Cummerow has created mathematical sound bytes belonging to a category known as algorithmic music. Each musical fragment is determined by a mathematical recipe -- a formula that links digits with musical notes and their duration... |
Science News
September 30, 2000
Ivars Peterson |
Planes of Budapest From a weekly meeting of passionate Hungarian mathematicians in 1933, an elegant geometric problem emerges that continues to interest mathematicians today, nearly 70 years later... |
Science News
November 8, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Geometreks Strolling down a city street or along a country road can provide a geometrical feast for the eye -- when the viewing is done from a mathematical perspective. |
Science News
May 26, 2007
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Covering New Ground with Polygons Mathematicians can cover larger areas than they'd realized using polygons with fixed diameters. |
Science News
June 1, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Setting Records Randomly Athletic record-breaking occurs in such small increments that chance factors loom large. Mathematicians and statisticians have sought recently to learn more about the role of randomness in records... |
Chemistry World
March 30, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Fractal first as molecules form Sierpinski triangles Scientists in China have for the first time created a fractal pattern from small molecular components. |
