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Dartmouth pattern course

edlundart — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:03:11 -0800

Mathematics and art are thoroughly explored as two intertwined fields, in this online version of a Dartmouth course focusing on patterns [more inside].

By: edlundart

edlundart — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:03:55 -0800

[I found this when looking for information on Islamic patterns. Some of the links on the left don't work properly, but you can figure out their URLs easily by... ahem... following the pattern.]

By: fold_and_mutilate

fold_and_mutilate — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 23:17:25 -0800

A MATHEMATICIAN, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. ... The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. The best mathematics is serious as well as beautiful--'important' if you like, but the word is very ambiguous, and 'serious' expresses what I mean much better. -- GH Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology

By: swordfishtrombones

swordfishtrombones — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:18:21 -0800

sweet! there goes another potentially productive morning...

By: rushmc

rushmc — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 03:22:31 -0800

A MATHEMATICIAN, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. Everything is pattern, including us. There is nothing else.

By: davebush

davebush — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 03:50:34 -0800

11:15 Restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 05:58:26 -0800

Cool link, edlundart - thanks! There are some good "math art" links in this taz post too!

By: taz

taz — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:07:45 -0800

Yeah, I love all pattern stuff (and thus happen to end up spending a lot more time wandering around math-related pages than one who once made a D in algebra has any right to do), so I'm really surprised I haven't come across this site before. Thanks a lot, edlundart!

By: edlundart

edlundart — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:41:44 -0800

I was also a poor math student, but have become increasingly interested in math in sort of a broader sense. Math is a lot more fun for me when i don't have to do it.

By: kliuless

kliuless — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:34:15 -0800

cool thanks! maybe they could do mathematics and music, too, eventually? might like these books :D

By: amberglow

amberglow — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:36:19 -0800

i'm with edlundart--and what about randomness and/or chaos?