Tag Archives: topology
Moebius Transformations
YouTube – Moebius Transformations Revealed Higher quality video and technical details from here
links for 2007-11-07: Helvetica, and two kinds of sphere
Strange Metal Orb found in Texas today’s mystery object (tags: weird-shit, Texas) The Official Typeface of the 20th Century Happy birthday Helvetica, 50 years old this week (via 3quarks) (tags: typography, Helvetica, design) Turning a Sphere Inside Out Seriously counter-intuitive … more…
Al-Jazari’s Automata
Ibn Ismail ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari (1136-1206) inventor and technological visionary author of The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices, also known simply as Automata. I’m not about to pretend to wax knowledgable about a person I was only vaguely … more…
Möbius strip unravelled
news @ nature.com – Möbius strip unravelled – Mathematicians solve 75-year-old mystery of infinite loop’s shape. It’s been so long since I had a maths story in here, I’d almost forgotten I did them. A couple of mathematicians at UCL … more…