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Submitted by Atractor on
This film illustrates how the great majority of seashells existing in nature can be generated by a fixed set of equations by simply varying some parameters. This gives one more example of how the apparent complexity one sees in nature may have a much simpler mathematical inner structure.
This module aims to educate young people (14-19) about the importance of trees, the significance of tree diseases worldwide, and their rates of infection. It introduces the concept of mathematical modelling, and attempts to demonstrate how an increasingly accurate mathematical model can be created through the addition and modification of algorithms. The activity sheets allow students to access source code and through making alterations create a more realistic model.
Submitted by Rafael Prieto Curiel on
Human migration is a topic that has commanded numerous column inches and news time in the past few years, and will probably continue to do so for some years to come. However, it is also a subject that suffers from misrepresentation and sensationalism: our perception of migration is heavily skewed by stereotypes that, aided by media reporting, have come to dominate our opinions at the expense of reliable data and statistics.
Chalkdust, a magazine for the mathematically curious (www. chalkdustmagazine.com), therefore developed an exhibit partly to challenge some of these perceptions and partly to show the application of mathematics in the social sciences and highlight the links between different fields of mathematics, thereby hopefully furthering the magazine’s goal of raising awareness of the beauty and importance of maths.
In particular, the exhibit shows how Newton’s discovery of gravity in 1687 has recently been applied to model migration, as well as other social behaviours such as trade.
Traffic and congestion phenomena belong to our everyday experience. In our simulation, you have the possibility to control traffic and create your own traffic jam. Find out how to trigger a traffic breakdown and how to resolve it. Observe how traffic jams can be seen as collective phenomena with waves propagating backwards from the bottleneck.
Submitted by mario di fonza on
”A trip in Italy” is a short video created by the students for the other students, for the purpose to arouse on environmental issues like: global warming,renewable energy,clean cities,public green and so on. The idea was born to arouse awareness to save the environment. The Comic does not go away from the scientific data and shows it with data and calculates the reason for the conclusion to which it comes.
Submitted by António Caetano on
This module intends to promote the subject matter on ordinary differential equations at the beginning of the study of a corresponding chapter in a Calculus course.
Interactive simulation of the phase separation of two immiscible fluids.
Submitted by Henry Segerman on
A very small LED casts a shadow of a 3D printed globe onto a wall, illustrating stereographic projection. The globe can be freely rotated by a visitor, to see the changes in distortion of the map.
Submitted by Ulrich Seidel on
The film is about discretization of patterns, colours and shapes. The animation illustrates that a 2D periodic pattern can be mapped seemless to a torus. Riemann surfaces are more suitable to display aperiodic patterns in three dimensions. Hence the Penrose tiling consisting of birds is shown on a helicoid.
Submitted by Alexander Guerten on
An attempt to take the work of M. C. Escher to a higher dimension