Yelena McManaman’s son Mark loves deep ideas. Yelena writes: “Mark is obsessed with the idea of symmetry and infinity. Now he’s also trying to build up on his “zero infinity and infinite zero” ideas.” In one of his latest experiments, Mark invented a way to model fractals with two mirror books. There is a chapter on […]
Mark Gonyea is an artist and graphic designer who recently crowd-funded an inventive and elegant series of 100-charts. The artwork caught my eye because the patterns were both adventurous and algebraic. Want to borrow my math goggles? Go on a scavenger hunt within the posters to find these mathematical structures: Arrays Star sheafs and star […]
One of the wonders of the ancient times is that many tribes and nations from different continents independently discovered and built patterns we call Labyrinths. Some math ideas are universal like that! Over the last decades, the Multiplication Tower idea has been appearing in many different projects. We interviewed authors from the 1970s to early 2000s, and […]
Note: This post originally appeared on my personal blog on January 24, 2014 and can be found here. At the end of this post you will find a question related to the following story–I would love to hear your thoughts, ideas and responses. –Malke ___________________________ I’ve been thinking quite a lot lately about the role […]
