Art & Mathematics

  • Visit the Connections in Space site for more exciting visual feasts from the boundary where art and mathematics meet. This is the result of a collaboration between an artist (Richard Bright), computer scientist (Nick Mee), art historian (professor Martin Kemp) and a theoretical physicist (Professor John D Barrow).
  • Mathematical Art comes in many forms. Explore Fergus Murray's Applets by altering the parameters. You do not need to understand the mathematics to enjoy the visual feast!
  • See the wonderful pictures in the Fractal Calendar
  • The Gallery of Mathematics from the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Loughborough University is a visual feast ranging from the Mandelbrot Set to spinning Tesseracts (4-Dimensional Cubes). Enjoy!
  • You will find some stunning animated mathematical art available on Greg Egan's Applet Page. Enjoy these wonders.
  • SandlotScience has gathered together a wonderful collection of Optical Illusions.
  • A french Optical Illusions Site
  • Make these Penrose Tiles and try to tile the plane.
  • View the amazing Pictures of Escher.
  • Sculptures by Helaman Ferguson. View mathematics in stone and bronze at Link 1 and Link 2
  • Polyhedrons feature in Art: Leonardo da Vinci Luca Pacioli Salvador Dali
  • Mathematical equations can produce 3D graphs which form surfaces.View the Enneper surface
  • Spirolateral Galleries created by Robert J. Krawczyk.

Curiosities

Encyclopedias of Mathematics

History of Maths

  • Play with the amazing COMPVTER ROMANVS
  • The Evolution of the Number Zero by Vindya Bhat
  • Some Famous Problems in the History of Maths.
  • "For over 350 years, some of the greatest minds of science struggled to prove what was known as Fermat's Last Theorem -- the idea that a certain simple equation had no solutions. Now hear from the man who spent seven years of his life cracking the problem, read the intriguing story of an 18th century woman mathematician who hid her identity in order to work on Fermat's Last Theorem, and demonstrate that a related equation, the Pythagorean Theorem, is true." The articles are at NOVA Online.
  • An outline of the History of Maths organised by region. Start out from a picture of the Earth!
  • Images of Mathematicians on Postage Stamps. This Site was created by Jeff Miller, a mathematics teacher at Gulf High School in New Port Richey, Florida and contains some fascinating stamp images.
  • Lewis Carroll's real name was Charles Dodgson. He was a Maths lecturer at Oxford. Try his Logic Puzzles and explore the Lewis Carroll Links
  • The MacTutor History of Maths Archive. An astonishing database of stories, facts and figures.
  • Find out about the eariest use of various Mathematical Symbols

Interactive Fun

Interactive Lessons On-Line

Mathematical Games

On-Line Maths Help

  • Currency Converter This converter has a date facility. Useful for appreciation and depreciation examples
  • Onlineconversion Here you can convert almost anything to anything. Apart from the usual conversions visit their FunStuff. In particular on the HowOld page type in your birth date and then watch as your age in seconds ticks away.
  • Specialist Calculators On-line calculators for length, area, volume, mass, temperature, density, pressure & stress, speed, fuel consumption, power etc
  • The NRICH On-line Maths Club has one-to-one Maths help available. Why not register with them?
  • Professor Freedman's Maths Help. This Site might calm your anxieties about Maths study!

Problem Solving & Maths discussion etc

  • Try this large cryptic Crossnumber Puzzle and other Tough Puzzles
  • An interesting collection of Cross-number Puzzles & Symbol Puzzles from Prof Dr Klaus Diller at the Universität Koblenz-Landau
  • Detective Chess is a superb type of deductive chess puzzle. You can download a PC software package by Gerry Quinn from this Site that generates the puzzle. A sample puzzle is given on the Site with explanation and solution.
  • Try the "incredibly-difficult-but-should-be-easy" Diamond 16 Puzzle. Thanks to Steven H. Cullinane for creating this puzzling opportunity!
  • Figure out the Mystery Operation at this page from the Teacher's Lab (part of The Annenberg/CPB Math and Science Project)
  • NRICH the On-line Maths Club
  • Try the problem of the week at the Maths Forum.
  • There are prizes available at CIMT for solving the problem of the month and also plenty of puzzles to try.

Records

Schools on-line

  • The Math Fun with Spirolaterals pages are from the Web Site of Corona Ave. School, Bell, California.
  • On-Line Math Applications is a wonderful Site from California created by six eleven/twelve year old students and two teachers.
  • Saint Anne's High School in New York has examples of student projects which range over some fascinating topics.
  • We would like to congratulate the students of class 6B from St Kiernan's, Manly Vale, Sydney,Australia on producing a truly beautiful Web experience.Visit their symmetry pages and enjoy the visual feast.

Topics of Interest

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