Folding Space-Time … WIth Sound

Vi Hart channels her inner Möbius … and her inner J.S. Bach … and her inner Time Lord … to turn a wooden bowl and a music box player into an interpreter of space-time reflections using music as dimensions.

This sonic mind-expander should be washed down with a look at the master of palindromic, reflected space-time compositions: J.S. Bach and his gloriously twisty-turny Crab Canon (srsly it’ll blow ya mind)

Sphereflakes

I’m pretty comfortable guessing that you haven’t considered the 3D symmetry present in snowflakes before, because who has? We consider them two-dimensional objects, but when you start to imagine a world with exotic planes of snowy symmetry … it gets pretty mind-blowing.

You’ve done it again, Vi Hart.

Previously: Here’s Vi’s original paper snowflake video, which takes them to another level. I even made some!

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Borromean Onion Rings

Borromean Onion Rings, the perfect way to top your Green Bean Matherole! Borromean onion rings were invented by special guest Marc ten Bosch (http://marctenbosch.com). Also shown are gelatinous cranberry cylinder, bread spheres and butter prism, mathed potatoes, apple pie, and pumpkin tau.

Mathed Potatoes: http://youtu.be/F5RyVWI4Onk
Green Bean Matherole: http://youtu.be/XwIs1nlDQ2I
Turduckenen-duckenen: http://youtu.be/pjrI91J6jOw

by Vi Hart.

I’m thankful for science and math today. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Scary Sierpinski Skull  

Vi Hart goes spooky-math on you with…  

…well I’m not really sure how to describe this. Other than to say that I love it. And that it’s slightly strange. And definitely a bit creepy, but not in a bad way. And that I never knew that skulls and candy corn could be so mathematically marvelous. 

Anyway, trick or treat! If you get any candy corn, build your own Sierpinski candy-triangle.

Vi, what exactly are they putting in candy corn these days?

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Hexaflexagons 2: THE SEQUEL

Hey guys, Vi Hart is back with another edition of hexaflexagon wonderfulness. How can simple paper hold so many tricks up its sleeve? Consider throwing your own hexaflexagon party. You never know which one of your attendees might turn out to be the next Richard Feynman.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be over here under this pile of paper cuttings, furiously trying to hexaflexagonate. 

Check out Part 1 here.

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Hexaflexagons!!

Happy October! Behold this lovely tale of extra paper, folding fun, and the trans-dimensional colortastic geometric wow-fest that is the hexaflexagon!!

Can someone fold me a few of these and send ‘em over? That would be great. I fully endorse not paying attention in math class if you’re gonna do this instead.

(by the wonderful Vihart)

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Algorithmic Drawing Did you catch Vi Hart’s ode to serendipitous mathematical doodling yesterday? If not, go watch it. Capturing that sort of spontaneity and surprising yourself with mathematics … can you think of a better way to learn? I just love how serendipitous the internet is. As a result of that post, Norman Shapiro pointed me to his huge collection of Algorithmic Drawings here on Tumblr. Go give him a follow and check out his full collection. He hand draws all the geometric motifs, following few rules other than exploring the limits of the pattern that has come to him. It’s both whimsical and highly ordered at the same time and I can’t get enough of them. I think it’s time to start doodling in the margins, folks. You never know what might come of it.
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Algorithmic Drawing Did you catch Vi Hart’s ode to serendipitous mathematical doodling yesterday? If not, go watch it. Capturing that sort of spontaneity and surprising yourself with mathematics … can you think of a better way to learn? I just love how serendipitous the internet is. As a result of that post, Norman Shapiro pointed me to his huge collection of Algorithmic Drawings here on Tumblr. Go give him a follow and check out his full collection. He hand draws all the geometric motifs, following few rules other than exploring the limits of the pattern that has come to him. It’s both whimsical and highly ordered at the same time and I can’t get enough of them. I think it’s time to start doodling in the margins, folks. You never know what might come of it.
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Algorithmic Drawing Did you catch Vi Hart’s ode to serendipitous mathematical doodling yesterday? If not, go watch it. Capturing that sort of spontaneity and surprising yourself with mathematics … can you think of a better way to learn? I just love how serendipitous the internet is. As a result of that post, Norman Shapiro pointed me to his huge collection of Algorithmic Drawings here on Tumblr. Go give him a follow and check out his full collection. He hand draws all the geometric motifs, following few rules other than exploring the limits of the pattern that has come to him. It’s both whimsical and highly ordered at the same time and I can’t get enough of them. I think it’s time to start doodling in the margins, folks. You never know what might come of it.
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Algorithmic Drawing

Did you catch Vi Hart’s ode to serendipitous mathematical doodling yesterday? If not, go watch it. Capturing that sort of spontaneity and surprising yourself with mathematics … can you think of a better way to learn?

I just love how serendipitous the internet is. As a result of that post, Norman Shapiro pointed me to his huge collection of Algorithmic Drawings here on Tumblr. Go give him a follow and check out his full collection. He hand draws all the geometric motifs, following few rules other than exploring the limits of the pattern that has come to him. It’s both whimsical and highly ordered at the same time and I can’t get enough of them.

I think it’s time to start doodling in the margins, folks. You never know what might come of it.

Doodling in Math Class: Connecting Dots

Turn that inverted parabola upside-down!

Next time you’re sitting there in math class pondering the greater existential significance of translating various quadratic functions into parabolas, I hope you think of this Vi Hart experience … take the time to doodle those dots, stitch together those segments, and fill your cup with the reflected sunshine of a beautiful cardioid.

I want to hug my computer when I watch this. Such beauty lies in connecting dots, and not knowing exactly what will come out the other side.

Well done. This one’s for Vi Hart (via benice equation):

(If you liked that one, check out more from benice equation here)

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Measurement

To teach math well, “your argument has to be beautiful”

Paul Lockhart is a math teacher. Most likely, he’s the math teacher you wish your math teacher was. Instead of math being taught as the dry, encyclopedic collection of exotic symbols and equations that is so often is today, he would rather it served as a beautiful language by which we describe the world around us.

He wrote something to this effect years ago, called “Lockhart’s Lament.” In it, he says: 

… if I had to  design  a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child’s natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn’t possibly do as good a job as is currently being done— I simply  wouldn’t have the imagination  to  come up  with  the kind  of senseless, soulcrushing ideas that constitute contemporary mathematics education.

You should read the whole thing.

He has an upcoming book called Measurement, one that he hopes will show people more of the beauty of math, and induce less phobia. Math is a truly beautiful language, and one that we could all serve to speak more fluently. I’ll be keeping my eyes out for this one.

Bonus: For more awesome mathemagic numerawesomeness, everyone should really be watching Vi Hart’s YouTube channel. Do it.

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