Odds and Ends

Below is a collection of entertaining videos:
  • Sphere Eversion: How to turn a sphere inside-out.
  • Not Knot: This video explores life in the knot complement. (Also good for understanding quotient spaces!)
  • Hexaflexagons: A series of videos about a craft with nice symmetries.
  • Look Around You (Maths): Answers to all the questions about MATHS you never knew you had.
  • Tadashi's Toys: A series of videos about "strange" physical phenomoena that Tadashi Tokieda has demonstrated with toys.
  • Chladni Plates: When tones are played on these plates, the corresponding nodal set takes on some gorgeous "patterns."
Some ways that math has been used to inspire or create art:
  • M.C. Escher: Escher is perhaps best known for his drawing of "impossible" situations and tessellations of the hyperbolic plane.
  • Sketches of Topology: The author of this blog takes constructs in low-dimensional topology and creates graphical representations of them.
  • Fractals
... And I would be remiss if I didn't include links about Klein bottles: I hope to add more to this page soon.