Ah, yes. The true story of how an amateur mathematician tried to redefine the number pi to 3.2 and copyright it – and the case went to Senate.
That would’ve rendered this pi love letter rather different…
How to organize, add and multiply matrices – an animated guide.
Scientists recently pinned down the largest known prime number – this is what it looks like rendered in RGB by Philip Bump.
Video highlights from the grand opening of NYC’s new Museum of Mathematics.
The always-brilliant Vi Hart teaches you math via mashed potatoes. For more irreverent and playful math education, see Paul Lockhart’s Measurement.
Geometrical Psychology – Benjamin Betts’s curious 19th-century mathematical illustrations of consciousness.
Artist Helen Friel’s gorgeous papercraft sculptures based on mathematician Oliver Byrne’s famous illustrations for the ancient classic Euclid’s Elements. Bonus points for the Mondrian-like aesthetic.
Geometria (1543) – gorgeous 16th-century geometrical sketches by German artist, mathematician, and cartographer Augustin Hirschvogel (1503–1553)
Vi Hart is back with another jaw-dropping hexaflexagon demo, following up on the first one – who knew paper could hold so much mathematical whimsy?
Fascinating short TED animation on how math guides ships at sea.
Metamorphose – fascinating 1999 documentary about M.C. Escher
Once again, mathemusician Vi Hart makes math enormously fun with these collapsible paper hexagons. Also see Paul Lockhart’s Measurement, a journey into the whimsy of mathematical reality.
