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2. Glossary of mathematical symbols - Wikipedia

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   Glossary of mathematical symbols. A mathematical symbol is a figure or a combination of figures that is used to represent a mathematical object, an action on mathematical objects, a relation between mathematical objects, or for structuring the other symbols that occur in a formula. As formulas are entirely constituted with symbols of various ...

3. Alexander Overwijk - Wikipedia

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   To further his claim, he would hand-draw a circle on the blackboard. In 2007, a video of Overwijk drawing a near-perfect circle for his class went viral on YouTube. Although the original story was a fabrication, he hosted a real "World Freehand Circle Drawing Championship" as a fundraiser for the Canadian Cancer Society following his viral fame.

4. List of mathematical shapes - Wikipedia

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   Compound of cube and octahedron. Compound of dodecahedron and icosahedron. Compound of eight octahedra with rotational freedom. Compound of eight triangular prisms. Compound of five cubes. Compound of five cuboctahedra. Compound of five cubohemioctahedra. Compound of five great cubicuboctahedra. Compound of five great dodecahedra.

5. Mathematics and art - Wikipedia

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   In modern times, the graphic artist M. C. Escher made intensive use of tessellation and hyperbolic geometry, with the help of the mathematician H. S. M. Coxeter, while the De Stijl movement led by Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian explicitly embraced geometrical forms. Mathematics has inspired textile arts such as quilting, knitting, cross ...

6. The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art - Wikipedia

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   The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art. The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art is a Chinese mathematics book, composed by several generations of scholars from the 10th–2nd century BCE, its latest stage being from the 2nd century CE. This book is one of the earliest surviving mathematical texts from China, the first being the Suan shu ...

7. Magic circle (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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   Magic circles were invented by the Song dynasty (960–1279) Chinese mathematician Yang Hui (c. 1238–1298). It is the arrangement of natural numbers on circles where the sum of the numbers on each circle and the sum of numbers on diameters are identical. One of his magic circles was constructed from the natural numbers from 1 to 33 arranged ...