IF YOU think of cosmology, you picture colourful nebulae; with neurology, intricate brain scans. But what does mathematics look like? That’s what a team of world-class artists and mathematicians set out to discover.
The product of the collaboration is the exhibition Mathematics - A Beautiful Elsewhere, at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, France. Curator Thomas Delamarre hopes it will do nothing less than provide an “answer to the abstraction of mathematics”.
Back in May I wrote a blog post about YouTube and the rise of the amateur in science communication. It’s exciting to now see a kind of punk mentality in science communication, a sense that anyone can do it. This is something I do myself on YouTube and in that article I encouraged you to join me.
Now, in a move away from its traditional user-generated content, YouTube has recently announced its first venture into original content. So let’s take a look at what YouTube will be offering in the way of science communication.
“There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium/And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium…”
So starts the 1959 song “Elements,” in which the Harvard math professor and musician set the periodic table to music. But now the old chestnut, beloved by science students for the last half century, needs more verses: Three newly discovered elements were given names on Friday by the General Assembly of theInternational Union of Pure and Applied Physics at a meeting in London.
