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On Polysemous Mathematical Illustration [video]

61 points by mathgenius 7y ago

nabla9 7y ago
His webpage: https://www.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/calculus.html https://www.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/calculus.html The book he mentions, Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham, is awesome. If you feel little bet insecure and lost with complex numbers, their relation to e and all the other things, just buy that book and look at the pictures. One hour looking a the pictures in the book is equal to 30 hours of studying the subject. You can use the book as a companion to any other book on complex analysis.
mohsinmehmood 7y ago
Cimabue, referred to as Cenni di Penni, is widely regarded as one of the best Italian painters. According to historian Giorgio Vasari, Cimabue turned into the trainer of Giotto, the 14th century's most giant Italian painter. The portray discovered in the lady's house is idea to be a part of a huge diptych courting from 1230 while Cimabue painted eight scenes depicting Christ's ardour and crucifixion. Of the 8 scenes, others are regarded to the public. One of them, The Virgin and Child with Two Angels, presently hangs in the National Gallery in London at the same time as the other, The Flagellation of Christ, is in New York as part of the Frick Collection. It is not the first time the art global has been amazed by means of an unexpected discovery of Cimabue's work. The painting that is now in London's National Gallery become given to the state in 2000 after being determined for the duration of the clearout of a British aristocrat's ancestral domestic in Suffolk. Early Renaissance painters were hugely prompted by means of Byzantine art, which continues to be produced in a similar fashion today on a heritage of gold paint. https://seotoolcheckers.com/article-rewriter-pro https://seotoolcheckers.com/article-rewriter-pro https://seotoolcheckers.com/plagiarism-checker https://seotoolcheckers.com/plagiarism-checker
Topolomancer 7y ago
I can also recommend the text book on applied topology that is mentioned in the video: https://www.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/notes.html https://www.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/notes.html Prof. Ghrist is an excellent educator and has a knack for presenting complex materials in a very engaging way. His papers on computational topology are also very well worth a read even if you are not interested in topology or topological data analysis.
credit_guy 7y ago
Best math talk ever. Mr Ghrist, if you read this comment (I hope you check HN before Reddit), you are the Umberto Eco of math. As a way of thanking you, here's a poem which I hope you will enjoy. The poem was written exactly 100 years ago, although I'm not sure if there's any meaning in this. I do not crush the world’s corolla of wonders and I don’t kill by means of mind the mysteries I meet along my path in flowers, eyes, on lips and graves. The light of others destroys the spell of mystery concealed in darkness depths, but I, I with my light enhance world’s secret – And as the white moonlight doesn’t diminish, but shimmering more it increases the secret of the night, so I enrich the dark horizon with greater chills of sacred mystery and all that is unknown becomes even more enigmatic under my eyes because I love flowers, and eyes, and lips, and graves.

61 points by mathgenius 7y ago

His webpage: https://www.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/calculus.html https://www.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/calculus.html The book he mentions, Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham, is awesome. If you feel little bet insecure and lost with complex numbers, their relation to e and all the other things, just buy that book and look at the pictures. One hour looking a the pictures in the book is equal to 30 hours of studying the subject. You can use the book as a companion to any other book on complex analysis.

mohsinmehmood 7y ago

Cimabue, referred to as Cenni di Penni, is widely regarded as one of the best Italian painters. According to historian Giorgio Vasari, Cimabue turned into the trainer of Giotto, the 14th century's most giant Italian painter. The portray discovered in the lady's house is idea to be a part of a huge diptych courting from 1230 while Cimabue painted eight scenes depicting Christ's ardour and crucifixion. Of the 8 scenes, others are regarded to the public. One of them, The Virgin and Child with Two Angels, presently hangs in the National Gallery in London at the same time as the other, The Flagellation of Christ, is in New York as part of the Frick Collection. It is not the first time the art global has been amazed by means of an unexpected discovery of Cimabue's work. The painting that is now in London's National Gallery become given to the state in 2000 after being determined for the duration of the clearout of a British aristocrat's ancestral domestic in Suffolk. Early Renaissance painters were hugely prompted by means of Byzantine art, which continues to be produced in a similar fashion today on a heritage of gold paint. https://seotoolcheckers.com/article-rewriter-pro https://seotoolcheckers.com/article-rewriter-pro https://seotoolcheckers.com/plagiarism-checker https://seotoolcheckers.com/plagiarism-checker

Topolomancer 7y ago

I can also recommend the text book on applied topology that is mentioned in the video: https://www.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/notes.html https://www.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/notes.html Prof. Ghrist is an excellent educator and has a knack for presenting complex materials in a very engaging way. His papers on computational topology are also very well worth a read even if you are not interested in topology or topological data analysis.

credit_guy 7y ago

Best math talk ever. Mr Ghrist, if you read this comment (I hope you check HN before Reddit), you are the Umberto Eco of math. As a way of thanking you, here's a poem which I hope you will enjoy. The poem was written exactly 100 years ago, although I'm not sure if there's any meaning in this. I do not crush the world’s corolla of wonders and I don’t kill by means of mind the mysteries I meet along my path in flowers, eyes, on lips and graves. The light of others destroys the spell of mystery concealed in darkness depths, but I, I with my light enhance world’s secret – And as the white moonlight doesn’t diminish, but shimmering more it increases the secret of the night, so I enrich the dark horizon with greater chills of sacred mystery and all that is unknown becomes even more enigmatic under my eyes because I love flowers, and eyes, and lips, and graves.