Posts tagged Vi Hart
Nothing is More Fun than a Hypercube ...
More Fun than a Hypercube of Monkeys, a sculpture by Henry Segerman and Will Segerman.
Monkeys! Mathematical groups! 4-dimensional geometry! Together at last!
This sculpture, called More Fun than a Hypercube of Monkeys, answers an open question: has the quaternion group ever appeared as the symmetry group of an object? Thanks to mathematician [...]
A Twelve-Tone Trip Down Memory Lane
Last week Vi Hart posted a wonderful 30-minute video on twelve-tone music, and it really took me back!
(If the video doesn’t load for you, watch it on YouTube.)
Ten years ago, I hadn’t yet decided I wanted to do math. In fact, I was enjoying my music theory classes immensely, and I thought I might study it in graduate school. In [...]
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