Temari is a traditional Japanese art form that often uses geometrically inspired designs. Yackel’s temari balls show spherical versions of geometric shapes based on the five Platonic solids. Artist: Carolyn Yackel.
I have a slide show up at Scientific American with pictures of some of the beautiful mathematical needlework I saw at the J [...]
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The Stunning Symbiosis between Math a...
Temari is a traditional Japanese art form that often uses geometrically inspired designs. Yackel’s temari balls show spherical versions of geometric shapes based on the five Platonic solids. Artist: Carolyn Yackel.
I have a slide show up at Scientific American with pictures of some of the beautiful mathematical needlework I saw at the J [...]
Strength in Numbers: Mathematicians U...
A satellite view of Earth. Mathematicians across the globe are devoting 2013 to studying the mathematics behind a wide range of processes on our planet.Image: NOAA/NASA/GOES Project.
Over at Scientific American, I wrote about the Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 initiative.
What do polar ice caps, guinea worm disease and wildfires have in com [...]
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