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Do bubbles between plates approximate Voronoi diagrams?

For example, soap bubbles:                   Image from UPenn: "A 2-dimensional foam of wet soap bubbles squashed between glass plates, after 10 hours ...
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Differentiable functions with discontinuous derivatives

For years I've taught my honors calculus students about functions like (the continuous extension of) $x^2 \sin 1/x$, and for just as many years I've told them that they won't encounter functions like ...
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On the non-rigorous calculations of the trajectories in the moon landings

In a paragraph written by a person emphasizing that rigour is not everything in mathematics (I wish I had written down the details), it was stated that the moon landings would have been impossible ...
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