Math Monday: Tie Your Bagel in a Knot!
Up your bagel slicing ninja skills with this overhand knot slice.
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Math Monday: Playing card constructions
Playing card constructions By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics At The Math Museum, we think it’s important to challenge oneself with mind-expanding tasks. Here are two rather challenging constructions which look simple, but may stymie you for hours. When you’re done, you’ll have something unique to show your friends. The ball at left […]
“Math Monday” and the Mathematically-Correct Breakfast
Wake up to a mathematically-correct breakfast with this bagel “hack.”
3D renderings of the Mandelbrot set
A big Keanu “Whoa” over these gorgeous 3D renderings of fractals. The article offers a fascinating back story about the 20-year quest to adequately display a Mandelbulb, such a 3D analog rendering of a Mandelbrot set. The Unraveling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot
Designing walls for robot bricklayers
The folks at The Wolfram Blog sent us a link to this story about using Mathematica to design unconventionally shaped, but (hopefully) structurally sound, brick walls that robotic masons might build. The author of the piece, Chris Carlson, Wolfram’s Chief Interactive Graphics Developer, writes: A few groups have begun to experiment with the idea of […]
Fractal cupcakes
For this week’s EMS Labs project, Windell and Lenore continue their geek kitchen cookery by showing you how to make fractal Koch cupcakes in fondant and marzipan. Fractal iteration never tasted so yummy! As one commenter so astutely points out: Enjoy your infinite edge of icing! Fractal Snowflake Cupcakes More: Sierpinski Cookies
EMS Labs on the monetary density of things
If we look at good-quality 1 carat diamonds, we find that they are quite expensive compared to the industrial diamonds we saw earlier. Now, the diamond monopoly hasn’t kept prices quite as high as LSD, however they are doing a very impressive job of trying. LSD doses measure in the micrograms, which makes the per-pound […]
