Purls of Wisdom: The Geometry and Topology of Weavables, Wearables and Wallpaper – Elisabetta Matsumoto
Tag: math
In a new study, researchers uncovered female programmers who made important but unrecognized contributions to genetics.
Source: The Women Who Contributed to Science but Were Buried in Footnotes
Thought it might interest some to see how FFT works.
“Natural phenomena we can relate to, like sound waves, heat transfer, weather patterns, and those of a more esoteric sort, like quantum particle interactions and cosmic objects moving through gravitational fields governed by general relativity, can all have their interactions approximated by classes of functions called orthogonal functions.”
Source: Video explaining Fourier Transform Used in Spectrum Analysis
Julian Voss-Andreae, a sculptor with a background in physics and mathematics, builds sculptures that seem to vanish into thin air.
Source: Sculptures disappear into thin air – INSIDER
One mathematician who’s got first-hand experience of the fascinating interplay between physics and geometry is Shing-Tung Yau. In a new book called The shape of inner space (co-authored by Steve Nadis) Yau describes how the strange geometrical spaces he discovered turned out to be just what theoretical physicists needed in their attempt to build a theory of everything. Plus met up with Yau on his recent visit to London, to find out more.
Source: Greenfield.pdf
Gary R. Greenfield
Department of Mathematics & Computer Science University of Richmond
Abstract
I provide a brief survey documenting the inclusion of cellular automata, periodic tilings and op-art in mathematical art. Then I give an overview of the history of Turing-like patterns in mathematical art. I describe a cellular automaton for producing Turing-like patterns and introduce some new variations. This leads to an open problem concerning the convergence of such patterns.
