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Higher Mathematics Meets High Culture
Marcus du Sautoy is a mathematician known for bringing an appreciation of mathematics to the masses. He’s done many television programs, popular mathematics books, theater productions and musical...
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Go Forth and Make a Piece of Pi
(Above) “Power of Pi” hand drawn with pencil, ruler, and compass by Jason Padgett. There’s still time to make something artsy for pi Day! Here’s some mathy art and design to whet your appetite for...
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Trajectories: Katherine Johnson’s Orbital Mathematics. (Women in Science 60)
Before NASA, there was NACA, an oddball collection of aeronautics nerds using black box data and wind tunnel analysis to figure out as much as they could about the science of flight. Calculations,...
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Hyperbolic Crochet
I never took any of the classes in the excellent fiber department at my art school. Maybe I thought it was too 2-dimensional or sedentary or too old fashioned. Visions of acres of granny yarn projects...
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WIP Weekend: Making Women in Science.
Why hello there! It’s Dale, the chap who writes the Women in Science cartoon column here every other Wednesday, and today I’m going to pull back the curtain a bit on how that column gets put together,...
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The Billion Roads From Here to There: The Graph Theory Combinatorics of Fan...
“Well, some go this way, some go that way. But as for me, myself, personally, I prefer the short-cut.” – The Cheshire Cat Every morning we wake to a deafening barrage of choice, decisions that...
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Erasing Mileva Marić-Einstein, The Woman Behind Einstein’s Math. (Women in...
Content Note: By the end of this article, you are not going to like Albert Einstein much. If this is a problem for you, if part of your sense of the grandeur of humanity is wrapped up in the...
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How to Flatten a Cube
A bit of background on this: In 2008, Mythbusters made a lead balloon. To construct the balloon, Adam taped together a stack of square lead foil sheets, assembled in such a way that, when inflated, the...
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