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Romance, Continued Fractions, and You
It came to me in a dream…the perfect Valentine’s Day post.
A continued fraction…of love.
“I had seen the mathematical concept of continued fractions as a metaphor for romance, and I was shocked that no one else had ever written about the beautiful, natural correspondence between the two subjects.”
There are only [...]
Try Your Hand at Hands-on Math
Meet Ellie, the L-shaped table.
Ellie, the L-shaped table.
I made her a few months ago by taking a piece of fabric and sewing the edges together like this.
A piece of fabric with identifications drawn on to indicate which sides will be sewn together.
Ellie is many things: a surface of genus 2, a translation surface, and a Veech surface, to na [...]
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