Inspirations is a short movie by Cristóbal Vila, inspired by the work of MC Escher. While it isn’t particularly great considered purely as a work of art, it could be considered as an excellent advertisement for maths. It’s jam-packed with references not just to Escher pieces but to all sorts of famous mathematical art and ideas. I think it would take a lot of careful pausing and looking to find all the references.
Christian was asked to find some art to decorate the walls of the university maths department he works in. Here’s what he found.
29 April 2013
Are redshirts really the most death-prone members of the Enterprise‘s crew? James Grime crunches the numbers.
29 April 2013
Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Paul Erdős, or as most people would call it, Erdős’ 100th birthday. So, Happy Birthday Paul.
26 March 2013
A mix of interviews with interesting people and mathematical miscellanea, presented by Katie and Christian.
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Nice-looking maths & things using maths.
aka "You got your art in my maths!"
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