Resources

Fun Stuff

• Doodling in Math Class videos by Vi Hart

• Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP):
  • The story of TSP.
  • Art by Robert Bosch and Craig S. Kaplan

• TSP art is somewhat related to art depicting the Jordan Curve Theorem .

• A history of the impossible problem of squaring the circle . This is related to Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. There's a lot more math in there, too.

• For the mathematically inclined: a fun paper by Katherine McL. Byers and James M. Henle about how to determine where the camera was placed when a photograph was taken.

• A paper by Ricardo Zalaya Báez proposing a classification of mathematical sculptures based on the math behind them.