Math Monday: Platonic Party Platter
Looking for just the right snack at your next “We Love Geometry!” or “Athenian Appreciation Day” party? How about a regular tetrahedron of cheese?
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Math Monday: Kite Geometry Takes Flight
Here are some mathematical ideas for making kites from any number of pure geometric forms.
Math Monday: Business Cards III
A roundup of some of the more exotic things that one can do with business card constructions.
Math Monday: Linkages – One Last Spin
This is the final installment in our epic Math Monday series on the intricate world of mechanical linkages. See the Linkages series introduction for the MoMath Linkage Kit, an introduction, and general instructions.
Math Monday: Linkages – The Straight Dope
For the Museum of Mathematics And here is yet another installment in our epic Math Mondays series on the intricate world of mechanical linkages. See the Linkages series introduction for the MoMath Linkage Kit, an introduction, and general instructions. OK, the suspense surrounding the (non?)existence of a straight-line linkage has built long enough. Let’s cut […]
Math Monday: Linkages – Let’s Get This Straight
If you recall, in the last installment before we took a breather, Math Mondays posed a question/challenge: Is there a four bar linkage that produces precisely straight motion? How about a linkage?
Math Monday: Business Cards II
Imagine a regular tetrahedron. Mark the midpoint of one edge and draw straight lines to the vertices opposite that edge on the two faces incident to that edge. In your mental image, transmogrify that edge and those two lines into zippers and unzip them. What do you get? Believe it or not, a standard American-size business card.
