Author: loganj

 
What if we treated star students like star athletes? That’s the question that motivated this video about Sam Dittmer, Hyrum Golze, and Robert Yang– three of BYU’s top mathletes. See the video here

These ancient Chinese puzzles have fascinated mathematicians for centuries. Their geometrical proportions and infinite possibilities have made them useful for practices in logical thinking. Fu Tsiang Wang and Chuan-chin Hsiung mathematically proved in 1942 the existence of a finite set of patterns referred to as "convex". Meaning that there are no indentations along the outside edge and an inside line from any edge to any other edge will not go outside the edges of the design. There are only 13 silhouettes that qualify. Read more about the history of this remarkable puzzle as well as some of the possibilities it has here.

Erik, a math prodigy who was honored in Popular Science’s second annual Brilliant 10, and his father Martin, an artist who was drawn into math through his son, built the piece by starting with a three-dimensional hexagon they folded from paper. They then inputted the shape into a computer and virtually erased all of the paper, so that only the creases remained. To read the full article click here 

New mathematical discoveries have made it possible to transform a clockwise helix into a counterclockwise one, or vice versa. To read the full article click here.

Yes.  Art and math DO have something in common.  

Mathematicians and artists came together for the 2009 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington, D.C. to showcase works of art based on a subject we all thought was irrelevant to beauty.  Everything from geometry to unusual polyhedrons were used as inspiration for paintings, sculptures, and more.  To find out more about how math was used to do it, read the full article here.