Math Circles and Triangles This post is about a book on geometry that I read last year (finishing up over the holidays). Beautiful Geometry was written by Eli Maor and Eugen Jost. Each of its 51 chapters explains a topic in geometry and presents an artistic plate illustrating
Art Artistic River Map I got a new art print from Etsy and wanted to show it off in this post. This print is a map composed solely of rivers. Rivers, maps, and fractals are some of my favourite things, so I really like how it has some
Computer Mandelbrot Set in Excel In my previous post, I promised "something fun with complex numbers in Excel". This is it. The Mandelbrot Set The Mandelbrot Set is famous as a very visually-appealing fractal. It is based on iteratively applying a simple rule to complex numbers (which
Math Arabic Calligraphy I recently got a very cool piece of art. So that's what this post is about. First things first, here it is framed and hanging on my wall: The design is Arabic calligraphy of the word al-Hurriyah (الحرية), meaning "freedom" or "
Tiling Hilbert Curve One of my favourite topics in math is fractals. For this post, I drew the Hilbert Curve fractal in octave. The Hilbert Curve is a space-filling curve: although it is one-dimensional (a series of line segments) itself, it covers a two-dimensional area. I recently