I noticed an irrepressible smile on my face as I listened to Peter Sarnak’s lecture in a complex analysis class I took in graduate school. I tried to account for the pleasure I felt about ideas I could just barely comprehend. It seemed I understood the significance of the exploration, that these abstractions were discerning […]
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My attention was brought today to a very pretty short film visualizing displays of the Fibonacci Sequence in nature on YouTube. The sequence was introduced to western mathematics in 1202. Descriptions of the film’s displays can be found here. A more complete description of the mathematical properties and applications of the sequence can be found […] It isn’t often that the human experience of mathematics is explored in the arts, but it does happen. A Beautiful Mind and Proof are two recent examples of math-related dramas. But it seems that, by many accounts, A Disappearing Number has succeeded in weaving mathematics itself into the mystery of human lives. The play premiered […] |
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