Picture This

This collection of articles and videos explores how finding the right picture makes it easier to follow challenging mathematical ideas.

 

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The Art Gallery Problem

A tricky problem can be solved by picturing it in a new way.

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Tiling Troubles

Why can you only use three of the regular polygons to tile a wall?

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Order in Disorder

"Some bits of mathematics are completely free of equations: just about patterns. I want to tell you about such a bit of maths, with no equations at all."
Watch this talk by Professor Imre Leader (Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge) to learn more!

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Cut your Cake and Eat it

Can you feed infinitely many people with just one cake? And if so, how should you cut it?

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Friends and Strangers

Sometimes drawing the right picture allows you to find order in something that, at first glance, looks like one big mess.