Sites of Interest

Mathematics Awareness Month

Mathematics Awareness Month is held each year in April. Its goal is to increase public understanding of and appreciation for mathematics.

Puzzles HQ

Everything Puzzles, from 3d Puzzles to Zigsaw Puzzles.

Andrew Fentem: Research Design Art Engineering

This is Andrew Fentem’’s online exhibit of innovative high-specification prototype systems, what might be called “machine art,” which incorporate pioneering research-based advances in the fields of multi-touch touchsceens, multi-object-tracking, kinetic surfaces, and RFID hardware.

Cornell College Math Club

View a photo gallery as the math club assembles a Menger Sponge, one of the many activities found in Project Origami.

WEB2DNA Art Project

WEB2DNA will take your website, analyze it, crunch it into little bits and spit it out as a graphic representation similar to a DNA fingerprint.

The Millennium Problems

In order to celebrate mathematics in the new millennium, The Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts (CMI) has named seven Prize Problems. The Scientific Advisory Board of CMI selected these problems, focusing on important classic questions that have resisted solution over the years.

Hyperbolic Space Crochet Models

In 1997 Cornell University mathematician Daina Taimina finally worked out how to make a physical model of hyperbolic space that allows us to feel, and to tactilely explore, the properties of this unique geometry. The method she used was crochet. Be sure to check out Making Mathematics with Needlework edited by sarah-marie belcastro and Carolyn Yackel for other mathematically inspired needlework projects.