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Date Picture Description Credit Read More December 2013: A Froebel star is a traditional German Christmas decoration. It is named after German educationist Friedrich Fröbel (1782–1852), who encouraged the use of paper folding in pre–primary education with the aim of conveying simple mathematical concepts to children.
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The Math Images Project is a wiki collaboration between Swarthmore College, the Math Forum at Drexel University, and the National Science Digital Library. The project aims to introduce the public to mathematics through beautiful and intriguing images found throughout the fields of math. The Math Images Project runs on MediaWiki software, as ...
For Pi Day 2010, Google presented a Google Doodle celebrating the holiday, with the word Google laid over images of circles and pi symbols; [12] and for the 30th anniversary in 2018, it was a Dominique Ansel pie with the circumference divided by its diameter. [13] Some observed the entire month of March 2014 (3/14) as "Pi Month".
Icons of Mathematics: An Exploration of Twenty Key Images is a book on elementary geometry for a popular audience. It was written by Roger B. Nelsen and Claudi Alsina, and published by the Mathematical Association of America in 2011 as volume 45 of their Dolciani Mathematical Expositions book series.
Christmas card made on a PC incorporating digital photography. Advances in digital photography and printing have provided the technology for many people to design and print their own cards, using their original graphic designs or photos, or those available with many computer programs or online as clip art, as well as a great range of typefaces ...
Jan van Eyck's 1434 Arnolfini Portrait contains a convex mirror with reflections of the people in the scene, [35] while Parmigianino's Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror, c. 1523–1524, shows the artist's largely undistorted face at the centre, with a strongly curved background and artist's hand around the edge. [36]
A Möbius strip scarf made from crochet.. Ideas from mathematics have been used as inspiration for fiber arts including quilt making, knitting, cross-stitch, crochet, embroidery and weaving.