Balloons : what do they mean to you? Harmless playthings? Medical devices? Educational tools? Or means for attending to the properties and spaces of air and geographies of atmosphere? For the latter, see the work of professor Derek McCormack, of the School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, UK, who focusses on balloons as vehicles […]
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Bubbles, balloons and maths clowns—oh my! (she says)
Investigator Patricia Jonas sent us this note: I was directed to a web site that says: “Imagine making maths fun using soap bubbles, balloons and a Maths Clown.” I do not want to imagine making maths fun using soap bubbles, balloons and a Maths Clown. I enjoy maths. But I find clowns disturbing. Very disturbing. […]
Mathematical Balloon Twisting
“Balloon twisting is fun” – and may also have industrial and military applications in the construction of so-called Air Beams – but some might say that the mathematics behind balloon twisting has, until recently, been under represented in the academic literature. To counter this, the authors of the paper ‘Computational Balloon Twisting: The Theory of […]