Timeline for What would you want to see at the Museum of Mathematics?
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| Dec 31, 2010 at 19:10 | comment | added | Sam Nead | A bubble table is also a super way to explore surfaces. I've added this as an answer. | |
| Dec 28, 2010 at 6:42 | comment | added | Ian Agol | John Hempel has a nice sculpture of the pseudosphere in his office, for which he had made a small rubber mould of a patch of it. One can move it around and see that it always fits, demonstrating that it is constant curvature. | |
| Dec 27, 2010 at 3:23 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | A related MO question: mathoverflow.net/questions/32479/… | |
| Dec 26, 2010 at 2:29 | comment | added | Kevin H. Lin | @Sam Nead: Indeed! In the Centre Pompidou in Paris, there are photographs by Man Ray of such sculptures... | |
| Dec 26, 2010 at 0:31 | comment | added | J. M. isn't a mathematician | Speaking of Bathsheba Grossman, this one's really cool: mathworld.wolfram.com/images/gifs/FeigenbaumFunction2.jpg . Helaman Ferguson's stuff is also nice: helasculpt.com/gallery/index.html | |
| Dec 25, 2010 at 19:19 | comment | added | Sam Nead | As many of these (nytimes.com/slideshow/2004/12/02/magazine/…) as you can find. They are beyond beautiful. | |
| Dec 25, 2010 at 16:59 | comment | added | Dick Palais | Do you know about bathsheba.com . The items there are really great. Also look up George Hart and Carlo Sequin. | |
| Dec 25, 2010 at 16:28 | history | answered | J. M. isn't a mathematician | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
