Sunday, March 2, 2008

Mathematical art

The recent Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego featured an exhibition of work by forty mathematician/artists. The artworks draw from dynamical systems, topology, and fractals.

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Study in Complexity: Hardest Mazes to Solve

What makes a maze difficult to solve? The more we consider this question, the more elusive it becomes. It's certainly possible to begin defining mathematical measures of a maze's complexity, but complexity must depend on aspects of human perception as well.

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