It is only fitting that at least one pillar of my website should be dedicated to this most amazing, most wonderful and blessed discipline.
While the magic of math is indeed inexhaustible, I currently have not yet written a whole lot of math-related content for my site. And so (at least for now) this page will consist mostly of a curated list of off-site links to some of the more interesting, more “recreational” math-related stuff that I have come across over the years.
This is the sort of stuff which, like art and music, can be appreciated by just about anyone.
Mathematical Christmas Angel - This image of an angel was constructed by some artist using mathematical formulas.
Discovering Math - A nice quote, and a pattern.
Magic Number 9 - Somebody wrote some stuff about the number 9.
PIE PI 3.14 - reflectional ambigram in which 3.14 equals PIE
Mandelbrot’s Bat - I came across this image on deviantART a while back, of a Mandelbrot‑like fractal which looks kind of like a bat or even the Batman logo. After some experimenting, I managed to re-produce the image myself. I discovered that this is the polar inversion of the graph Z(n+1) = cos(Zn) + C
Do you like Batman? Do you like math? My math teacher is REALLY cool. - Speaking of the Batman logo, somebody’s math teacher discovered the “Batman Equation” lol
Julia Mandelbrot - Every point in the Mandelbrot has a corresponding Julia set, and so every Julia set is related to the Mandelbrot set, as can be seen in this image that I made a while ago. What surprised me, however, is that it actually looks like the Mandelbrot set when zoomed out. It’s like the microcosm and the macrocosm or something.
The Fox Function - It seems that somebody discovered a fox function! This is beyond my understanding at the moment, but still pretty cool.
Koch Snowflake - I programmed a Turtle to draw the Koch snowflake (pronounced “Coke”).
On the Number 37 - DGaston discovered these truths about the number 37 while playing with his calculator as a kid.
On the Number 73 - In response, I have written up my own article on the number 73, which shares some of these same properties.
More to come!
Since this is “mathemagic”, I also wanted to be sure to include some mathematical magic tricks.
Disappearing Number - Tricky question. It really does seem like the dollar has gone missing!
MATHS MAGIC! - A trick involving your age and the last digit of your cell phone number.
MAGICAL MATH TRICK - An unwinnable game?
A mathemagical trick - A fun trick.
Here is a trick that I came up with on my own.
Not really math, but here’s a cool magic trick that I came across as a kid.