These are knots. Not knots used to tie down boats or headstrong horses, but knots used to explore geometries of space.
The display was made by Estes Objethos Atelier, but the photo was taken… Read the rest “Science Art: Mathematical Knot Table 01, by Rodrigo Argenton”
Astrobiology reports on a cross-disciplinary study that has found that the song of humpback whales has the same distinct mathematical structure as a human language:
… Read the rest “Whalesong is structured like a language.”Humpback whale song
This is from the “Posters about Mathematics” section of Wikimedia Commons.
The description says: “For a young child, a shape can be called a square if its sides are vertical… Read the rest “Science Art: 10,000 convex and nonconvex regular polygons, by Arthur Baelde.”
This is a biological photo that is also a mathematical photo. It’s a ball of worms that Georgia Tech researchers were studying, because, as it says on the National Science Foundation… Read the rest “Science Art: Ball-shaped blob of California black worms, 2023.”
This is an illustration from Nordisk Familjebok, a Norwegian encyclopedia from the turn of the last century. The labyrinth, naturally, is much older. It’s of a sort that can be laid… Read the rest “Science Art: Trojeborg, a stone labyrinth from Visby, 1919”
This is a diagram of a times table. As the drawing’s description on Wikimedia Commons reads:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Binary Operations – Multiplication Mod 16, by Inductiveload.”Binary ring diagram to illustrate operators on binary numbers. The least significant
If you’re a longtime Scientific American reader, or just a geek of a certain age, you’ll remember Martin Gardner’s “Mathematical Games” puzzle column.… Read the rest “ChatGPT flunks Martin Gardner’s old brainteasers.”
Oh, a beautiful Renaissance landscape by one of those Lowland masters, a naturalistic scene of people meeting merrily on a wooded path between the village center and some large, important… Read the rest “Science Art: Magpie on the Gallows, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1568”
I’ve posted illustrations from this remarkable book of geometric studies before. This one looks, to this old gamer’s eyes, like 1D4+1D20+1. (For non-gamers: It’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate VI from Here, a number of broken gifts for the carpenters and lovers…., by Lorenz Stöer, 1567.”
As described on Wikimedia Commons (who got this diagram from the British Library), the image was “taken from page 100 of ‘Grundzüge der mathematischen Geographie… Read the rest “Science Art: In s is das Centrum fur den Meridian ANQ, 1857”
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The title here is the best I could render from the middle German “Hier Inn etliche zerbrochne Gebew, den Schreinern in eingelegter Arbeit dienstlich, auch vil andern… Read the rest “Science Art: From Here, a number of broken gifts for the carpenters and lovers…., by Lorenz Stöer, 1567.”
SONG: “Math” (a penitential cover)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for March’s song (which I still… Read the rest “SONG: “Math” (a penitential cover)”
In Forbes, Johns Hopkins Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics Steven Salzberg has put forward a modest mathematical proposal to solve some of our… Read the rest “There’s an easy fix for gerrymandering, if Congress can count two decimal places.”
Gemini Research News has some bad news for the Earth’s growing population. It turns out that our farms will face some trouble because we’re going to be bigger, healthier, and… Read the rest “We’re getting bigger: “It will be harder to feed 9 billion people in 2050 than it would be today.””
Ars Technica keeps it simple, smart, with a new study that shows why statistics can be the third kind of lie* – sometimes the hard way to think about a problem really is the wrong way, … Read the rest “Statistics are complicated, right? Well, thinking that is why we tend to get misled.”
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