Mathematical Photos

This page has a listing photos that are interesting from a mathematical perspective. I don't have many yet, but I hope to add more over time.

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Mathematical Photos
Photo Description
Pi alley is a small street in downtown Boston. While the origin
of the name is somewhat in question, it may be so named because
newspaper composing rooms used to dump their pied type into the alley.
Pilgrim Monument is located in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
The tower was completed in 1910 and is 252 feet tall. To ascend the tower
one climbs a series of ramps and stairs that wrap around the inside of the
tower. The photo is taken from the bottom of the monument, looking up.
Taken from near the bottom of the Pilgrim Monument, looking northwest
you see (or at least used to see) two watertowers next to each other. The
mathematically interesting part is that the top of the one tower is conical
while the other tower has a spherical top.
A level 2 Menger Sponge constructed using only business cards by Mark Lynn
in 2009.
A level 2 Mosby Snowflake fractal constructed using only business cards
by the Olivet Math Club in 2013.
The wear in the concrete at the base of this door shows essentially an
upside down normal curve.
The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago has a nice display of
wooden geometic solids.
A wooden solid at the Musuem of Science and Industry.