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Online edition of A Fuller Explanation

Rated Oct 03 2008 • 4 reviews • mathematics • angelfire.com

I read this when it was first published. Amy Edmondson does a wonderful job of explaining and simplifying Synergetics and Synergetics 2. (Here's the whole book! :)
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Robert W. Grays HomePage

Rated Oct 02 2008 • 5 reviews • mathematics • rwgrayprojects.com
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Rated Aug 18 2008 • 1 review • islam, mathematics • google.com

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Pattern from 15th Century archway of Darb-i Imam shrine, Isfahan, Iran
Image courtesy of Peter Lu/Science/Harvard University

Looks like Roger Penrose from the 1970s...
but it ain't.
It's Muslim mathematics from hundreds of years ago.

from the page:

It was so amazing to me
to find out how early Muslim Mathematicians
were so advanced in Geometry.

This can be noticed very clearly through the early Islamic architecture.
That's exactly what Peter J. Lu from Harvard University
had discovered during his visit to Uzbekistan.

The Harvard graduate student in physics was fascinated
by the beautiful and intricate geometric "girih" patterns
on the 800-year-old buildings there, and he wanted to know
how ancient artisans had created them. He discovered
more than just a clever construction method.

He also found an entirely unexpected level of mathematical sophistication
in the designs, pointing at mathematical ideas
that weren't formally developed until hundreds of years later.

Lu's determination to find out took him on a journey through hundreds of photographs
of Islamic architecture in the libraries at Harvard--and now it's landed him an article in Science.

When Lu looked at photographs of Islamic buildings,
he found that he could break the patterns on their surfaces up
into the same shapes, even though the shapes often weren't immediately visible.

"I couldn't sleep for days," he said. "I skipped Christmas break to work on it."

The research shows that, by 1200, an important breakthrough had occurred
in Islamic mathematics and design.

"It's absolutely stunning," Harvard's Peter Lu said in an interview.
"They made tilings that reflect mathematics
that were so sophisticated that
we didn't figure it out until
the last 20 or 30 years,
[as below, a Penrose tiling]

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Arabic mathematics

Rated Aug 18 2008 • 2 reviews • islam, mathematics • st-andrews.ac.uk

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The history of mathematics. Good thing a few Christian monks, back in the day, learned Arabic. Nicked from my unbreakable friend.

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http://www1-c703.uibk.ac.at/mathematik/project/bildergale...

Rated Jul 11 2008 • 0 reviews • mathematics • ac.at
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Algebraic Surfaces Gallery

Rated Jul 11 2008 • 163 reviews • mathematics • ac.at

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What algebraic surface are you?

My friends see me as x2 = (y 2+ z2)2

My life's dream is to be a z2-x2-y2 = 1

But really I'm just a (x2+y2+z2)2-(x2+y2) = 0

Many thanks to AkoJoAko

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Golden Ratio

Rated Sep 29 2007 • 2 reviews • mathematics, math, golden ration • uga.edu
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3503877302082311448

Rated Sep 21 2007 • 27 reviews • mathematics, video • google.com
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Overview

Rated Oct 05 2006 • 9 reviews • mathematics • goldennumber.net
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Phi: 1.618. The phinest source to the golden section,...

Rated Oct 05 2006 • 45 reviews • mathematics • goldennumber.net
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