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Ever noticed those shimmering, wavy light patterns on the bottom of a swimming pool? 🏊‍♂️✨ That’s not just random noise—it’s caustics, and the math behind them is pure magic.

Season 2, Episode 11 dives straight into the Airy integral. 📚🧮
🔗 https://cortexdrifter.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-small-taste-from-my-new-book-season-2.html

#Mathematics #Physics #Optics #AiryFunction #RiemannHypothesis #NewBook #Diffraction #Science #MathIsBeautiful #BookRecommendation

A Small Taste from My New Book: Season 2 Episode 11

Explorations in analytic number theory, asymptotic analysis, and unsolved problems, written by a mathematician and software engineer.

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Hani M Mar 25

Here, 0.08 is the detent strength, or how quickly it snaps into place. This is a tunable variable to get the right feel.
So as sin rises to +1, stickiness lags ring_spin and it feels sticky. As sin returns to 0, the ring spins freely. As sin falls to -1, stickiness lags ring_spin and it snaps home.
https://hexword.mubergapps.com
#ilovemath #gamedev #indiedev #mathisbeautiful #sinwave #reactnative #puzzlegame #hexword

Hani M Mar 25

My HexWord puzzle uses hex flowers and hex rings. A flower refers to the center hex and its 6 adjacent hexes, while a hex ring is just the 6 adjacent hexes without the center hex.
Anyway, I wanted a physically tactile feel to spinning the ring. Like a combination lock. Sticky at the notch. Free in transit. And magnetic (snaps home) as it locks.
#ilovemath #gamedev #indiedev #mathisbeautiful #sinwave #reactnative #puzzlegame #hexword

Petra Schwer Nov 20, 2023

Kann die Natur Mathe?

(verspätete aber nicht weniger) Herzliche Glückwünsche zum DMV Medienpreis an @hyperjinx und das Team der WDR Wissenschaftsredaktion für dieses großartige Video über die berühmten Annanaszahlen, Spiralen, den goldenen Schnitt und vieles mehr.

Unbedingte Kuckempfehlung!

https://www.mathematik.de/index.php?option=com_acym&ctrl=fronturl&task=click&urlid=398&userid=4433&mailid=238

#mathe #goldenerSchnitt #Annanas #mathisbeautiful

Kann die Natur Mathe? | Quarks: Dimension Ralph

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Petra Schwer Nov 17, 2023

Have some fun over the weekend with light-billard:
https://rawcdn.githack.com/IMAGINARY/cindyjs-apps/89065bf14a86448f087a6e2ed5dec693991d1617/sphere-chaos/index.html
#math #mathisbeautiful #lightrays

Lichtstrahl

Petra Schwer Nov 15, 2023

Want to play with folded galleries in Coxeter groups?
Here's a cool tool to have a look at shadows in Coxeter groups. Programming this tool was part of a Bachelor's thesis I've recently supervised. I could not be happier with the final result!

https://www.mathelabor.ovgu.de/shadows

#math #maths #mathisbeautiful #mathart
#visualizingMath #illustratingMath

shadows

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Petra Schwer Nov 13, 2023

Recommended this book to a colleague this morning - and now you get to see it, too!

Do Not Erase: Mathematicians and Their Chalkboards
by Jessica Wynne

A photographic exploration of mathematicians’ chalkboards

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691199221/do-not-erase

#math #mathematics #art #chalkboard #MathIsBeautiful

Do Not Erase

A photographic exploration of mathematicians’ chalkboards

nc233 Oct 17, 2023

Pr(Heads | Heads) = 51%. There's a certain #symmetry with the famous Pr(baby is boy) result from Laplace that I find beautiful! 🦋
https://mastodon.social/@freakonometrics/111242943066946774
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#math #mathisbeautiful #data #stats #datascience #science #sciencedon #datadon #mastoscience

Gizem Karaali Feb 13, 2023

Today I found this animation by Tung Pham of Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie (1943) and I was delighted:

https://youtu.be/4b85UBqUy28

#PietMondrian #AbstractArt #GeometricArt #MathIsBeautiful

Broadway Boogie-Woogie the Animation (Lost in the City)

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BeefGriller Dec 28, 2022

Holy frijoles! I'm a math lover, and I find mathematical puzzles enchanting. So whenever a math conundrum, if you will, pops up, I take notice. This problem of a goat's grazing area within a circular fence intrigues me OH SO MUCH. To see the solution in such a complex, yet mathematically beautiful style simply blows my mind. https://youtu.be/ZdQFN2XKeKI #MathIsBeautiful!

The Goat Problem - Numberphile

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