Jun Mitani is a Japanese artist folding amazing geometric origami models. His approach is very original using curved creases.
Eclectic Perambulations in the Noosphere
Courtesy of Konrad Polthier and Konstantin Poelke, Free University of Berlin
"Complex functions are important in many areas of mathematics, physics and engineering. A complex function is one in which both variables are complex numbers. The picture shows the visualization of a complex function using a specifically designed color scheme.
Following a technique called 'domain coloring,' the color scheme assigns a certain color to every complex number, inducing a coloring of the function domain according to its values at every point. So using this picture, you can explore properties of the function by easily spotting zeroes (black spots) or singularities (white spots). Contour lines indicate how the function deforms the complex plan."
For a hint on how this works , look at the table below carefully to find a pattern...
{ Think Nines }
Establishing scientific truth by legislative fiat.
The very notion of legislatively changing a mathematical constant sounds so crazy that it just has to be an urban legend, right? Nope. As unbelievable as it sounds, a bill that would have effectively redefined pi as 3.2 came up before the Indiana legislature in 1897.
Read more of this interesting development via mentalfloss.com
Mathematical structures both natural and man-made dazzle the eye
"If you shut yourself in a room and devise some abstract mathematics for the sake of sheer intellectual fascination, you might not expect your scribblings to have any relevance to the real world. Your parents would probably bug you about what you were doing with your life. And yet time and again, scientists find that the creations of pure thought match what they discover in nature. Does it mean the world at its deepest levels is somehow mathematical?...."
