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Science News
December 8, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
The Math Hatter and More Looking for a cool gift for someone mathematically inclined? An unusual, conversation-generating token of appreciation? The World Wide Web offers a number of intriguing possibilities -- if you know where to stop and shop...   |
Science News
February 16, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
A Snowy Twist Snow-sculpture of mathematical shapes. |
Science News
February 8, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
A Graceful Sculpture's Showy Snow Crash Brent Collins has spent more than two decades carving gracefully curvaceous sculptures out of wood. Collins is not a mathematician, yet his intuition and aesthetic sense have led him to explore patterns and shapes that have an underlying mathematical logic. |
Science News
April 21, 2007
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Forms of Symmetry Group theory inspires a West Coast sculptor. |
Science News
November 11, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Quark Park Math-inspired and science-related artworks enliven an imaginatively landscaped sliver of parkland. |
Science News
June 17, 2000
Ivars Peterson |
Punctured Polyhedra Is there a polyhedron in Euclidean three-dimensional space that has only finitely many plane faces, each of which is a closed connected subset of the appropriate plane whose relative interior in that plane is multiply connected? |
Science News
February 17, 2001 |
Immersed in Klein Bottles A description of the "Klein bottle", a mathematical construction that has zero volume, and the story of a company which makes them. |
Science News
July 8, 2000
Ivars Peterson |
Mobius and his Band Discovered in a purely mathematical context, the Mobius strip is the best known of the various toys of topology. Since its discovery in the 19th century, it has also achieved a life of its own beyond mathematics---in magic, science, engineering, literature, music, and art... |
Science News
November 4, 2000
Ivars Peterson |
Mathematical Art on Display The term "mathematical art" usually conjures up just one name---that of Dutch graphic artist M. C. Escher. But the realm of mathematical art is far wider and more diverse than most people realize... |
Science News
January 20, 2007
Ivars Peterson |
A Polyhedron with a Hole A polyhedron with seven faces, 14 vertexes, 21 edges, and a hole makes an intriguing lamp. |
Science News
January 27, 2007
Ivars Peterson |
Knitting Network A skein of intriguing mathematical objects comes out of an evening devoted to knitting, crocheting, and other crafts. |
Science News
June 9, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Mobius Accordion Artist Susan Happersett of Jersey City, N.J., has come up with a novel twist on the venerable Mobius strip: a playful, eye-catching creation she describes as a Mobius accordion... |
Science News
January 13, 2007
Ivars Peterson |
Art of the Tetrahedron, Revisited A New Orleans sculptor and his tetrahedron-based artworks survived Hurricane Katrina. |
Science News
September 2, 2000 |
Mobius at Fermilab A description of three-dimensional variants of the Mobius band and mathematical forms in art. |
Science News
April 5, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Fractured Granite and Fractal Prints A fractured edge of granite tends to show the same degree of roughness at different magnifications. Indeed, nature features many irregular shapes that are self-similar -- that repeat themselves on different scales within the same object. |
Science News
April 22, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Papercraft Polyhedra Drawing and constructing polyhedra is a pastime that goes back to the Renaissance and perhaps even earlier times |
Science News
November 1, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Strolling Down Mobius Lane The geometry of the Mobius band has great potential as an architectural form -- one that is difficult to investigate even with the aid of digital technologies. |
Science News
April 26, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Recycling Topology On the topology of an interesting form: the recycling symbol |
Science News
February 7, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Turning a Snowball Inside Out Turning a sphere inside out without allowing any sharp creases along the way is a tricky mathematical maneuver. Carving an intricate snow sculpture depicting a crucial step in this twisty transformation presents its own difficulties. |
Science News
February 5, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Knot Divided in Snow Mathematical forms are no longer unusual sights at the annual International Snow Sculpture Championships in Breckenridge. Mathematician Stan Wagon of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., and his team have carved huge blocks of snow into graceful geometric shapes. |
Science News
February 16, 2008
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: Math on Display Visualizations of mathematics create remarkable artwork. |
Science News
December 7, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Five-Suit Decks, Traffic-Jam Puzzles, and Other Treats Tired of playing the same old card games with the same old cards? One option is to expand the deck to include five suits instead of just four. |
Science News
June 8, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Fractal Roots and Artful Math The MathArt/ArtMath exhibition showcases mathematical art. |
Science News
November 8, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Geometreks Strolling down a city street or along a country road can provide a geometrical feast for the eye -- when the viewing is done from a mathematical perspective. |
Science News
September 16, 2000
Ivars Peterson |
Plato's Molecule The Pythagoreans believed that the dodecahedron formed the "timbers" on which the spherical bulk of the heavens was built. This Platonic solid has been an object of fascination for millennia. Now, the dodecahedron is in the news again... |
Science News
June 16, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Bubbles and Math Olympiads Predicting the geometric shapes of soap bubble clusters can lead to surprisingly difficult mathematical problems... |
Chemistry World
June 19, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Eureka moment in supramolecular chemistry Scientists in the US have made a large, self-assembling molecular cage that resembles an intricate shape first drawn by the Greek mathematician Archimedes. |
