The Business Card Menger
Sponge
Poised between dimensions, the Menger Sponge fractal hovers on the
boundary of being and nothingness. Dr Jeannine Mosely has built
one from business cards - a unique fusion of discreet mathematics
and office stationary.
Mathematics of Paper Folding
What can one do with a piece of paper? Mathematicians have begun
to explore the formal potentialities of the folded square, giving
rise to the new field of computational origami.
Inventing Kindergarten
Inspired by the science of crystallography,the nineteenth century
kindergarten system of education laid the foundations for the development
of modern art, architecture and design.
Hyperbolic Space
For thousands of years mathematicians believed there were just 2 types of geometry,
the plane and the sphere. But another more aberrant structure lurks beneath
the surface of Euclid's laws - one that has been illuminated through the art
of crochet.
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