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The Beauty of Roots (2011)
- moyix 12y agoIt impresses me to no end that Greg Egan, a talented science fiction writer [1], finds time to contribute to mathematical curiosities like this! I suppose it keeps him sharp, given that his novels often involve a lot of heavy math. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Egan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Egan
- based2 12y agohttp://www.reddit.com/r/mathpics/comments/gk6e2/the_beauty_of_roots/?already_submitted=true http://www.reddit.com/r/mathpics/comments/gk6e2/the_beauty_o...
- agumonkey 12y agoReminds me of www.oftenpaper.net/sierpinski.htm
- asaddhamani 12y agoFor some reason, I read this as "The Beauty of Robots".
- mkl 12y agoPrevious discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=980043 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=980043 about an older version of the page with some different info, http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week285.html http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week285.html
- Renaud 12y agoI often regret not having made more efforts to study Maths when I was younger. I see the joy of being drawn into these fun explorations and I regret that these were not used in class to entice kids into wanting to go beyond dry textbooks that focused on theory and never tied the material being taught with anything remotely exciting.
- msandford 12y agoI can't help but think that the reason some of those holes have serrated edges is due to the problems representing the actual numbers with floats. I can't say for sure, it's really just a hunch. The patterns are fascinating either way.
- arantius 12y agoAt least the bulk of the article was discussing data explicitly described as being generated by Mathematica, which is capable of arbitrary precision. It seems just as likely that this mode was used.
- itazula 12y agoSeeing something spectacular like this really makes me feel that life is too short. Beautiful!