By pleating a square sheet of paper with a pattern of concentric squares, one can fold a saddle shape that mathematicians call a hyperbolic paraboloid, sometimes nicknamed a hypar. Erik...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday June 6th, 2011 12:00 PM
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By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics By pleating a square sheet of paper with a pattern of concentric squares, one can fold a saddle shape that mathematicians call...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday May 23rd, 2011 12:14 PM
Stained glass can be used to make many mathematical forms. One very beautiful shape is the polar zonohedron. Hans Schepker made this three-foot diameter example from hundreds of pieces of...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday May 16th, 2011 12:00 PM
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By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics The Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher has inspired many people to create mathematical artwork. This elegant cut-and-fold paper model of Escher’s famous...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday May 9th, 2011 12:00 PM
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By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics We’ve seen mathematical pencil constructions in past Math Mondays columns. (Why go to the hardware store to buy dowels with all those...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday May 2nd, 2011 12:00 PM
Categories: Craft, Science | 3 Comments
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics We have seen various ways to make the Sierpinski tetrahedron in a past Math Monday column, but here is a new one....
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday April 25th, 2011 12:00 PM
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Here’s another response to George Hart’s challenge to build a snub dodecahedron out of paperclips. A few weeks ago, we showed you Charlotte DeKoning’s build, using twist-tie wires at the...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday April 18th, 2011 5:30 PM
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By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics Tim Chartier at Davidson College has discovered that if you make things out of candy there’s no lack of volunteers to help...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday April 18th, 2011 12:00 PM
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I can’t tell you how much it warms my editor’s heart to see readers trying their hands at the projects we publish and reporting the results back to us. Charlotte...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Thursday April 7th, 2011 2:30 PM
Vi Hart melts my mind again with a totally fun video explanation of binary counting with dancing hands and groovy music. The amount of intelligence, creativity, sense of humor, and...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday April 4th, 2011 4:00 PM
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics If you make a coffee table that express a mathematical idea and place it right in the middle of your living room,...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday April 4th, 2011 2:50 PM
Categories: Science, Woodworking | 21 Comments
We’ve covered the work of the amazing Vi Hart before (Vi is also the daughter of our Math Monday columnist George Hart). Vi describes herself as a “recreational mathemusician” and...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Tuesday March 29th, 2011 4:30 PM
Categories: Science | 3 Comments
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