Just for fun, here is a list of 13 mathematically-inspired products that I’ve stumble upon recently.
- Klein bottle house
- Come in/Go away ambigram doormat
- Klein bottle bottle opener
- Chair made of Voronoi cells
- Tiling a floor with irregular pentagons
- A Möbius bridge
- The Pittsburg Steelers logo (and my blog post about it)
- Nesting Fibonacci kitchen knives
- Mathematical clocks and spiral clocks
- Fibonacci sequence rings
- Mathematical holiday cookies
- Fractal jewelry
- Shiny fractal cow
I’m sure there are many more. Add your own discoveries in the comments…
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By: “Math-inspired products” « Tyler's Daily Math Thoughts on July 31, 2010
at 12:13 pm
some lovely mathematically-inspired jewelry:
http://tiny.cc/ieexr
http://tiny.cc/9e14x
while not specifically a product since you have to knit it, this is one of my favorite math-inspired knitting patterns: http://www.delacroix.net/blog/?p=592
By: bonny on August 1, 2010
at 9:55 am
Cool. Thanks, Bonny. You can also crochet the hyperbolic plane
By: Dave Richeson on August 2, 2010
at 9:52 am
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By: Weekend miscellany — The Endeavour on August 6, 2010
at 12:49 pm
I just found another blog that had a similar post to mine—posted just one day before mine. I especially like the Venn diagram tables:
http://mathfail.com/2010/07/mathie-items.html
By: Dave Richeson on August 6, 2010
at 9:10 pm