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"An abstraction is one thing that represents several real things equally well."
– Edsger W. Dijkstra
"Without an understanding of causality there can be no theory of communication. What passes as information theory today is not communication at all, but merely transportation."
– Marshall McLuhan (1988) "Laws of Media: The New Science".
"General systems theory is a series of related definitions, assumptions, and postulates about all levels of systems from atomic particles through atoms, molecules, crystals, viruses, cells, organs, individuals, small groups, societies, planets, solar systems, and galaxies. General behavior systems theory is a subcategory of such theory, dealing with living systems, extending roughly from viruses through societies. A significant fact about living things is that they are open systems, with important inputs and outputs. Laws which apply to them differ from those applying to relatively closed systems."
– James Grier Miller, "General behavior systems theory and summary" (1956), Journal of Counseling Psychology 3 (2) 120-124.
Hyperbolic Crochet
Hyperbolic Double Spiral
(Unfurled View)
Yellow Wool
increased one stitch in every five
started with 16 stitches
19 rows
A few photos from a trip in 2015 inside the Andrew Wiles Building in Oxford, named after the man who solved Fermat's Last Theorem
These mathematical models were designed joint J. Monterde (University of Valencia, Spain). A few years back we designed this cardboard model under suggestion of Prof. Y. Miyamoto. For the construction we have used 24 pieces.
A very cool idea in mathematics that is worth looking up is that of space filling curves or Peano curves first described by Giuseppe Peano.
The specific curve depicted here is due to David Hilbert, and is so called a Hilbert curve.
This turned out kinda wierd, kinda neat, hopefully not gruesome.
Contrary to popular belief, this bridge was not put together by a bunch of Newton's students or the man himself. Newton died well before this bridge was made.
The real story : http:www.queens.cam.ac.uk/alumni/alumni-archive/record-2000-edition/the-mathematical-bridge.html
by Internet Archive Book Images
Most people agree that fractions are a bugbear in mathematics. Wherever they rear their ugly heads, they wreak havoc on both novice and expert alike. So how can we show that the non-terminating repeating decimal 0.999… is exactly equal to the number 1? ...
Teaching math processes to Grade 2 students at East Bay Waldorf School.
Blogged at: thewaldorfway.blogspot.com/2010/04/grade-two-math.html
by Samuel Musungayi.
Captured with a Konica Big Mini HG BM-300 and an expired roll of Agfachrome CTx 100 from May 1998.
CanoScan 8800F.
I've always loved math and geometry and it's always amazed me how mathematically orientated nature is. Patterns and shapes in nature seem to follow very mathematical models like the Fibonacci sequence and the Golden Mean. It's evolution at it's finest.
Canon EOS 40D
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Canon 580EX Speedlite
Canon 430EX Speedlite
Strobist info: Shot on a black cloth with 580EX above triggered by a Canon off camera shoe cord, and a 430EX directly below triggered by the 580EX.
Comments welcome...
"Nadir Afonso ( 1920-2013) was a Portuguese geometric abstractionist painter. Formally trained in architecture, which he practiced early in his career with Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer"
Fundação Nadir Afonso | Architecture by Álvaro Siza Vieira
The Mathematical Bridge spanning the River Cam in the center of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. The wooden foot bridge connects Queen's College. It was first built in 1749 and has since been rebuilt twice to the same design. The bridge is composed of all straight timbers.
The infamous wooden bridge over the River Cam at Queens was originally erected in 1749 and not by Newton as is often attributed. It was rebuilt in 1905 to the original design.