Themes

You will found here more informations (panels, texts, pictures, animations...) about each theme and each experience of the exhibition.

Experiencing mathematics!

1- Read the Nature

  • Patterns in nature
  • Is the world fractal?
  • All in orbit!

2- Tilings & Symmetries

  • Tiling technique
  • Is nature symmetric?
  • Where am I?

3- Filing a Space

  • Piling oranges!
  • From atoms to crystals
  • Packaging: a complex problem

4- Connections

  • Points and lines
  • Are four colors enough?
  • Hello! Is that you?

5- Calculating

  • My computer tricked me!!!
  • Secure, @-commerce?
  • Denoising in Corfou

6- Constructing

  • Curves for smooth driving
  • The genius of bridges
  • The rotary engine, Revolutionary!

7- Estimating

  • Are most of us average?
  • How to borrow money?
  • Bingo!

8- Optimisation

  • Nature is economical
  • The Earth under surveillance
  • The most efficient shapes

9- Proving

  • 3ooo years of research
  • From Pythagoras to Wiles
  • True but… unprovable!

10- Objects & Models

  • A Tricycle with Square Wheels
  • A Random Pinball Machine
  • A tree that plays music
  • What is it?
  • A Logarithmic Spiral
  • Six Pyramids for One Tower
  • What is a Cycloid?
  • Tribute to Möbius & Escher
  • Fractale and folded paper
  • Packing 11 Squares into a Square
  • A chaotic pendulum