I think we mathematicians are a little bit behind the curve. We are not fully aware of the Frankenstein that we may have already created or could create. I think that’s another aspect of this responsibility of mathematicians to take a more public role—to educate the public by giving them access to the beauty and power of mathematics.
Schlagwort: Mathematik
Beautiful Nuclear Dualities.
What academia should always be and feel like.
And now I have learnt it. I understand orbifolds and the group theory necessary to prove Conway's theorem. I have proved the theorem myself, and the corollary that there are only seventeen periodic tessellations of the plane. I still like the subject a lot and I am happy to have written my bachelor thesis about it.
Equilibrium Pages.
Good and new ideas should always fit on two one page.
Musical Doughnut.
The topology of the syntonic temperament's tonnetz is generally cylindrical. Any syntonic "equal" tuning (i.e., a tempered width of the perfect fifth which divides the octave into a number of equally-wide intervals) snaps this cylinder into a torus(the shape of a ring doughnut, a hula hoop or an inflated tire), showing that it has a topology equivalent to S1×S1.