Inner Space

Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost.

– W.S. Anglin                      

I hate posting up youtube clips without comment, but, this video, a visualization of a Mandelbox which I found via Coilhouse, is beautiful, and requires very little chattery on my part.

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To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory.  Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts.  Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.

– Ivars Peterson