Tuesday, July 3, 2012

NOVA - Hunting the Hidden Dimension

Nova makes some awesome shows.

Here is a great one from last week or so about fractals:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/fractals/program.html

You can make your own fractals as well!

Make your own: http://www.fractaldomains.com/download.html (There are others as well, just Google it.)

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Wobbly Table Math

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-turning&ref=sciam

It's a problem as old as civilization: the wobbly table. You may have thought your only recourse against this scourge is a hastily folded cocktail napkin stuffed under the offending leg. If so, take heart, because mathematicians have recently proved a more elegant solution. Just rotate the table.