Showing posts with label Ashmolean Museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ashmolean Museum. Show all posts
Monday, May 14, 2012

Questions on the History of Mathematics

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Arthur Miller Einstein and Schrödinger never fully accepted the highly abstract nature of Heisenberg's quantum mechanics, says Mi...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

Artifacts in the Exploration of Geometry

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK It should not be lost on individuals who have followed this blog, that there is a range of connection to Pl...
Wednesday, March 14, 2007

IN Search of Mandelstam's Holy Grail

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There are two posts that reflect the purpose of this post today. One is Clifford's linked through Lee Smolin's comment and the other...
Monday, February 26, 2007

Artifacts of the Geometrical WunderKammern

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As one visits the mathematical puzzles and conjectures, what value these insights to the physics or our universe if we did not see things in...
Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Visual Abstraction to Equations

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Sylvester's models lay hidden away for a long time, but recently the Mathematical Institute received a donation to rescue some of them. ...
Thursday, November 30, 2006

Megalithic carved stone balls from Scotland

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With the discovery of sound waves in the CMB, we have entered a new era of precision cosmology in which we can begin to talk with certainty ...
Saturday, May 21, 2005

Sylvester's Surfaces

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Figure 2. Clebsch's Diagonal Surface : Wonderful . We are told that "mathematics is that study which knows nothing of observation.....
Tuesday, December 28, 2004

The Sound of the Landscape

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK As you know my name is Plato (The School of Athens by Raphael:)I have lived on for many years now, in the idea...