Geometry and Topology

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Swallowtail on the shore

Les solides de Platon, Felix Klein, H. S. M. Coxeter et un battement de queue d’aronde: les cinq solides de Platon (le tétraèdre, le cube, l’octaèdre, icosaèdre et le dodécaèdre) ont toujours attisé la curiosité des mathématiciens, pas seulement à cause pure beauté, mais aussi à cause de leurs nombreuses propriétés de symétrie. Dans cet instantané, nous partirons de ces symétries, irons vers les groupes et les singularités pour finalement trouver le lien entre le tétraèdre et la queue d’aronde.

Minimizing energy

What is the most efficient way to fence land when you’ve only got so many metres of fence? Or, to put it differently, what is the largest area bounded by a simple closed planar curve of fixed length?
We consider the answer to this question and others like it, making note of recent results in the same spirit.

Factorisation de matrices

Ce qui suit est un court abrégé sur le thème de la factorisation de matrices. Nous expliquerons pourquoi ce concept très simple mène à des cheminements de pensée étonnamment profonds et trouve dans la physique théorique moderne d’importantes applications.

Martmatics

Martmatics is a project to show how Mathematics and Art have been related to each other throughout history and how they are still linked today. There are many bonds and the authors have chosen the most attractive and significant ones. You will find a brochure and also an activity book with excercices to accompany the examples from the brochure.

IMAGINARY Worksheets for Schools

A collection of IMAGINARY worksheets for school children. The worksheets are of different levels of difficulty, aimed at children and teenagers aged between 5 and 17 years. The material has been developed for the IMAGINARY exhibitions in Spain and was awarded with a prize of the Initiative “Ciencia en Acción” 2012

School Taskbook: From 5 to 15

The taskbook for school students by renowned Russian mathematician Prof. Vladimir Igorevich Arnold. You can find the original Russian version as well as an English, German, Spanish, Italian, Vietnamese and Turkish translation.

If you are interested to add a new translation, please see the github repository of the booklet for all sources and details.

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