Archive for the ‘Mathematics’ Category

Behind every computer game lie many applications of mathematics.

This fractal was created using a new generator called Fractal Science Kit. It's worth checking out.

A reader from Chile provides an explanation of the locus of the center of an ellipse which moves such that it is tangent to the positive x- and y-axes.

This guy earns around $14,000 per hour, while a Cambodian teacher earns around 20 cents per hour.

There is something very wrong with this picture.

There's a lot more to vectors than just forces and velocities.

Can we measure a country’s level of happiness? Can we properly compare the happiness of different countries?

What does it mean to be happy, anyway?

Here's some nice geometry. It's a way to divide a circle into equal areas, using a pair of compasses and a ruler only.

And it's not bad art, either.

Graffiti in Greece looks very mathematical - even rather nerdy in places.

Here's some interesting number patterns - they could be good for a party trick!

Why do we have matrices and where do we use them? We learn the Chinese developed them long before the West.