Fractals used to measure artistic genius
A fractal is, so to speak, an anomalous set for our senses, although this anomaly has to do with the way our senses perceive space; the strangeness of a fractal is therefore sensory and not […]
Month: October 2017
Best mathematics: in Seville (by Vueling)
Last August, the airline Vueling included in its Ling magazine a recommendation on where to study mathematics in Spain; over a picture of the Giralda they wrote: Spain’s best university for mathematics, Seville. (page 22) […]
Pendulum Clocks
The Workings: Pendulum clocks, featured in today’s divertimento, were creations of science and technology. Galileo discovered the isochronous properties of the pendulum in the early 17th century, and fifty years later, Christian Huygens followed up […]
Solution: Pendulum Clocks
We publish the solution to the Pendulum Clocks amusement. The divertimento: A watchmaker has two misadjusted pendulum clocks. One is one minute ahead a day and the other one is one and a half minutes […]
Voting with bad manners
Looking at the situation in Catalonia yesterday, 1st October, it came to me a certain incident when the great French mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy went to cast his vote. As additional information to what follows, it […]