Geometry

TAG SEP 1996: Geometry



Let us begin by revisiting the different types of wallpaper repeating patterns that we began discussing yesterday. Mathematicians classify certain prints as really being different variations on the same pattern, and they count a certain number of pattern types.




Can you guess how many?






Without worrying too much about some of the fancy math language on the site we are about to see, let us go take a look.














Although this server spends a lot of time offline, when it is up it holds a large amount of math info and resources. It may be of some help with the geometry we will be discussing today . . .












For the next activity, let us look at one use of geometry that combines astronomy with religion, and dates back quite a ways . . .



















Some math graphics are here. They are not directly related to what we have been doing, but if you like knots . . .


For those people who are in my This has an Explanation class and/or are interested in the binary numbers used by computers, click here.


Here are a few more things to play with. Don't blame me if it turns your brains to tofu . . .






(Last updated 6/25/96)