Media tagged with: Mathematical Explorations

Light ray patterns on the beach floor in St. Croix.
Compare with patterns in soap bubbles, dragonfly wings, and scales on snakes and lizards.
What is the morphogenesis of these patterns? I.e. physical factors cause them?

This is the first class of the semester. Students have been exploring reflective symmetry using movement and are now sharing their representations.

This video was taken in a mathematics for liberal arts class with 15 honors students. It met two times a week for 75 minutes each.