Mobius Strip - Gateway to Higher Dimensons
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The origins of the Mobius strip from the mid-1800s, when the visionary scientist Dr. August Mobius described the properties of one-sided surfaces, to the present,an integral part of mathematics, magic...
VIDEO Music Is Math
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Complex, organic geometries are rendered using code written by the creator of this film. Wonderfully hypnotic, it is a joy to watch!
VIDEO Balancing 15 Books On Head + Solving Rubix Cube + Reciting Pie to 100th ^
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I can't tell if she has excellent balancing skills, can remember a lot and has a fake rubix cube or she is the most brilliant person alive!
IMAGE It's Official, Some People Are Just Born Good At Math
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Science has just confirmed what you've been trying to convince others: Some people are just born good at math. Preschoolers who have a good inherent "number sense" ALSO do better on tests that predict...
IMAGE The Mystery of the Menger Sponge
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One of the proposed exhibits for the Museum of Mathematics involves a Menger sponge, a geometric object devised by a mathematician named Karl Menger in 1926. “It’s a well-known object that people have...
2Dsoul
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This young man attempts to solve a mysterious problem that is connected by deep mathematical analysis and photographs, but struggles and is left aimless.
VIDEO Möbius Story: Wind and Mr. Ug
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Hart takes the iconic 1884 satirical novella Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, which applies Victorian knowledge of higher mathematics to a witty story about a fictional two-dimensional world an...
VIDEO Math Midway Square-Wheeled Tricycle
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Two years ago, Whitney created a traveling exhibit called the Math Midway, which featured a lot of the kinds of exhibits that the museum, already nicknamed MoMath, will display. One example is the squ...
VIDEO Doodling in Math: Spirals, Fibonacci, and Being a Plant [1 of 3]
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What snuggled-up slug cats have to do with the math of cosmic wonder and simple beginnings. You may recall mathemagician Vi Hart from her delightful stop-motion explanation of the Victorian novella Fl...
VIDEO Tom Lehrer - New Math
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A video to help understand the Tom Lehrer song.
IMAGE In High Stakes Patent Auction, Google Bids Mathematical Constants
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Google turned some heads with its unusual bidding strategy. The mathematically inclined quickly identified a pattern in Google’s bids. Their opening shot was Brun’s constant, followed by Meissel-Merte...
VIDEO Memory Masters
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amazing mathematical savant
VIDEO Abbott & Costello 13 X 7 is 28
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A famous bit of math fun, from the great Abbot & Castello, enjoy.
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