Increase your sense of wonder. (Author of 50 books & 800 patents. Yale Ph.D.) "Pickover contemplates realms beyond our known reality." ~NY Times
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Looks like mathematics.
Actually, it's the Ranakpur Jain temple, India. tinyurl.com/4ebctn6e
The year is 1959.
A moment of concentration in the golden age of electrical engineering. Some of you may almost remember this era. Source: flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchi…
Math.
What do you like best about the "H Tree"? It's a fractal tree structure with each branch smaller by a factor of the square root of 2. It has Hausdorff dimension 2, and comes arbitrarily close to every point in a rectangle. The figure shows first 10 levels of an H tree. tinyurl.com/2b3ktmew
"I would define mathematics as the study of structure divorced from context."
~Senia Sheydvasser
Source: quora.com/What-is-mathematic…
Of course, "applied mathematics" also exists. :) Examples: Fluid Dynamics, Optimization Theory, Biostatistics, Mathematical Finance, Mathematical Physics, Quantum Computation, etc. What other examples would you add?
Mathematics and Mystery. Geometry that fills us with wonder.
By Pardesco, pardesco.com, Used with permission.
Mathematics.
Adapted from tex.stackexchange.com/a/6005…, CC BY-SA 4.0
Houseplants become sentient and begin their quest to understand, and then control, humanity. (Just kidding. It's oxalis and maranta, in a time-lapse video.)
By Darryl Cheng, House Plant Journal, Source: tinyurl.com/ybjy6no7, Used with permission.
Ecology.
When your office goes green... Conceptual toilet paper.
By Dave Blazek, @LoosePartsGuy, loosepartscomic.com, Used with permission.
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
― H. P. Lovercraft
Geometrical portal from this world to the world beyond. Crystalline afterlife.
Addictive geometry gif by @beesandbombs, Used with permission.
“Maybe the brilliance of the brilliant can be understood only by the nearly brilliant.”
-- Anthony Smith, The Mind, 1984 tinyurl.com/ybn87z28
