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Thirteen mathematically-inspired products

Posted by Dave Richeson on

Just for fun, here is a list of 13 mathematically-inspired products that I’ve stumble upon recently.

  1. Klein bottle house
  2. Come in/Go away ambigram doormat
  3. Klein bottle bottle opener
  4. Chair made of Voronoi cells
  5. Tiling a floor with irregular pentagons
  6. A Möbius bridge
  7. The Pittsburg Steelers logo (and my blog post about it)
  8. Nesting Fibonacci kitchen knives
  9. Mathematical clocks and spiral clocks
  10. Fibonacci sequence rings
  11. Mathematical holiday cookies
  12. Fractal jewelry
  13. Shiny fractal cow

I’m sure there are many more. Add your own discoveries in the comments…

6 Comments

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  2. bonny says:
    August 1, 2010 at 9:55 am

    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

    1. Dave Richeson says:
      August 2, 2010 at 9:52 am

      Cool. Thanks, Bonny. You can also crochet the hyperbolic plane

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  4. Dave Richeson says:
    August 6, 2010 at 9:10 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

  5. DMCK Designs says:
    December 9, 2013 at 10:03 pm

    How about mathematically inspired space-filling (fractal) scarves?

    See …

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