Snapshots are short texts on aspects of modern mathematics written by researchers visiting the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach. With this Snapshot station, you can browse through all available snapshots by sliding horizontally and read the full snapshot by sliding vertically. Each snapshot is also available for direct print or for emailing.
Submitted by Noel Matoff on
These are the thirteen plus one panels of the Women of Mathematics throughout Europe exhibition.
Math to Touch is a collection of 16 small apps, each of them opening a little mathematical world to be explored.
Submitted by Christine Verbeke on
The Earth’s magnetic field is protecting us from the dangers from outside. However, once in a while, it is possible that a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) launched from our Sun, has a large impact at Earth. Our model EUHFORIA helps with predicting the arrival times and impacts of such CMEs, so that we can prepare ourselves at Earth when a large CME is coming our way…
Submitted by Guillaume Jouvet on
This 5-min-long film shows how scientists use drones to monitor and model the detachment of icebergs (calving) from the Bowdoin Glacier in Northwest Greenland.
Submitted by Aubin Arroyo on
Take a few perfectly reflective spheres and arranged them at the vertices of a polyhedron.
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.
Explore the science of cartography and the geometry of map projections.
Submitted by Oliver Labs on
In this hands-on set, MO-Labs presents its 3d print wireframe versions of some of the most classical symmetric solids for non-commercial use: platonic solids, archimedean solids, catalan solids.
MatchTheNet is a game about 3-dimensional polytopes for a single player. You will meet the five Platonic Solids and their best friends!
