the Whitney box variations
The minute waltz, non-prime and 120-harmonic-reversed are worth listening to for a few hours on end.
dimension digression
A French team of mathemeticians and computer artists has just released a documentary that attempts to help us mere math-mortals transcend the three-dimensional space we are trapped in, and visualize regular polyhedra in 4 dimensions just as a Escher tile-lizard might visualize our 3-D world. The two hours worth of videos are very well done, [...]
The mathmatical elimination of Canadians
Being a born risk taker and adventurer, I couldn’t pass up the change to register for a sweepstakes put on by Kelty, makers of my sleeping bag and tent, to win a trip to Iceland and a bunch of gear. Of course I won’t win anything but the occasional spam email, but let’s pretend it’s [...]
