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Space tourist is just one way to describe Simonyi - Associated Press article features an interview with Charles Simonyi where he discusses the history behind A Cultural History of Physics, which was written by his father.
IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine reviewed, Science for the Curious Photographer in their latest issue. "This is a unique book, providing the reader with technical details involving digital cameras, lenses, and light in general. It will help the reader to understand how digital cameras and optics work, which may help in selecting cameras and lenses, enabling one to become a more knowledgeable and better photographer."
Karoly Simonyi undertook a great project: to tell the story of the history of physics and the cultural, philosophical, and societal movements that had shaped and been shaped by its development. The book that grew out of this project, published first in Hungarian, then in German, and now in English, has been highly successful and widely read. Creation of the English edition of A Cultural History of Physics has been directed by Karoly's son Charles. A successful entrepreneur, Charles emigrated to the United States as a teenager and went on to become a software engineer at Xerox and at Microsoft, where he oversaw the development of what would become some of Microsoft's most profitable products: Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. Find out more about this historical book.
Celebrate the Alan Turing Year - 2012 Turing Centenary with us! Check out The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing by Martin Davis. This book explores the fascinating lives, ideas, and discoveries of seven remarkable mathematicians.
David Mumford, author of Pattern Theory: The Stochastic Analysis of Real-World Signals, and Sol Garfunkel wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times on How to Fix Our Math Education.
American Scientist reviews, Pattern Theory: The Stochastic Analysis of Real-World Signals by David Mumford and Agnes Desolneux.
Computer magazine reviews Displays: Fundamentals and Applications and Visual Perception from a Computer Graphics Perspective, see page 75.
Geeks3D approved: 3D Engine Design for Virtual Globes is "A great resource!" for OpenGL developers.
Keith Devlin appeared on Tech Nation with Dr. Moria Gunn on Wed. July 27th. They discussed three books Keith has recently published, The Man of Numbers, Leonardo and Steve, and Mathematics Education for a New Era. Visit the Tech Nation website for more information.
Origami Resource Center reviews Ornamental Origami: Exploring 3D Geometric Designs by Meenakshi Mukerji.
Techspot: The UK's Secretary of State for Education believes that video games will help students study math and science. Keith Devlin's book, Mathematics Education for a New Era explains how video games can provide enhanced learning in these subjects.
Outerra.com review of 3D Engine Design for Virtual Globes, by Patrick Cozzi and Kevin Ring. The authors have also setup a webpage for the book, www.virtualglobebook.com.
NPR reviewed You Can Count on Monsters on January 22.
A K Peters Author Noriko Kurachi published Bridging Something New with Computer Graphics in CG World in October 2010.
A K Peters' Strange Attractors is mentioned in the December 2010/January 2011 issue of MAA.
View the Bright Boys: The Making of Information Technology Website
Interview with Daina Taimina, author of Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes
Read Datavisualization.ch's review of Processing for Visual Arts
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.
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.
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.
wonderful tensegrity structures
Tensegrity structures are visually stunning and their combination with computer enhanced structures is creating renewed interest for architectural applications.