A heart-shaped surface given by the sextic equation
(Taubin 1993, 1994). The figures above show a ray-traced rendering (left) and the
cross section (right) of the surface.
A slight variation of the same surface is given by
(Nordstrand, Kuska 2004).
Created by Jason Hise with Maya and Macromedia Fireworks. A 3D projection of a 5-cell performing a simple rotation. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
A resource about math tricks would not be complete without mention of the techniques of Vedic mathematics. Vedic math was introduced by Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja in the first half of the 1900s, and are a collection of sutras which allow the user to quickly solve
Pierre de Fermat was a French mathematician who lived in the 17th century and is famous for his work in the theory of numbers, calculus, probability theory and analytic geometry. Although he followed a career in law throughout his life, Fermat had a passion…
