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Polyhedron Models /Stellations

For each natural number n, we draw a periodic curve starting from the origin, intersecting the x-axis at n and its multiples. The prime numbers are those that have been intersected by only two curves: the prime number itself and one.

Tweetstream of @David_Dobbs and @DeborahBlum's session at Science Online 2012, 9.30-10.30a Saturday 21 Jan.

The incredible vintage illustrations of Soviet mathematician Anatolii Fomenko, exploring the intersection of mathematics and the myth of light geometry.

A short abstract movie dealing with nature and maritime creatures, metamorphosis and transformation – it connects art and science.

At TED2010, mathematics legend Benoit Mandelbrot develops a theme he first discussed at TED in 1984 -- the extreme complexity of roughness, and the way that fractal math can find order within patterns that seem unknowably complicated.

The theoretical basis behind the movie "Nature by Numbers".

A short movie inspired on numbers, geometry and nature, by Cristóbal Vila.

This animation illustrates the concepts presented in chapter one of the book "Imagining the Tenth Dimension", a new way of thinking about time, space, and string theory.

Margaret Wertheim leads a project to re-create the creatures of the coral reefs using a crochet technique invented by a mathematician -- celebrating the amazements of the reef, and deep-diving into the hyperbolic geometry underlying coral creation.