For several years I ran a blog called Visual Insight, which was a place to share striking images that help explain topics in mathematics. Last week I gave this talk about it at the Illustrating Math Seminar. Now you can see the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G611RbO3GQ
It was fun explaining some great images created by Refurio Anachro (npub17lw…5ctv), Greg Egan (npub12cu…d38p), Roice (npub19k6…kcuy), Gerard Westendorp (npub1fay…s7kh) and other folks. For more info on the images I talked about, go here:
• http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/visual_insight/20150115%20-%20Hammersley%20Sofa.html 2015 - 01 - 15 — Hammersley Sofa
• http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/visual_insight/20151201%20-%20Golay%20Code.html 2015 - 12 - 01 — Golay Code
• http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/visual_insight/20140715%20-%20%7b7,3%7d%20Tiling.html 2014 - 07 - 15 — {7,3} Tiling
• http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/visual_insight/20140315%20-%20%7b6,3,3%7d%20Honeycomb.html 2014 - 03 - 15 — {6,3,3} Honeycomb
• http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/visual_insight/20130915%20-%20%7b6,3,3%7d%20Honeycomb%20in%20Upper%20Half%20Space.html 2013 - 09 - 15 — {6,3,3} Honeycomb in Upper Half Space
• http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/visual_insight/20151215%20-%20Kaleidocycle.html 2015 - 12 - 15 — Kaleidocycle
• http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/visual_insight/20160215%20-%2027%20Lines%20on%20a%20Cubic%20Surface.html 2016 - 02 - 15 — 27 Lines on a Cubic Surface
• http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/visual_insight/20150415%20-%20Sphere%20in%20Mirrored%20Spheroid.html 2015 - 04 - 15 — Sphere in Mirrored Spheroid
• http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/visual_insight/20151001%20-%20Balaban%2010-Cage.html 2015 - 10 - 01 — Balaban 10-Cage
• http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/visual_insight/20150915%20-%20McGee%20Graph.html 2015 - 09 - 15 — McGee Graph
You can see the whole blog at the AMS website:
https://blogs.ams.org/visualinsight/author/johnbaez/AMS website
or on my own website in a more stripped-down format:
https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/visual_insight/my website. But you can also check out individual articles here.... (Yes, read on....)
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