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A 119 Year Quest to Understand Tessellating, Convex, Irregular Pentagons
October 4, 2019The idea for MathHappens to work with tessellating pentagons originated from intern Jason Gorst’s suggestions for future projects on his final report. A tessellation describes an arrangement of shapes that tiles a plane with no gaps or overlaps.The challenge of finding all possible tessellating pentagons was issued in 1900 by David Hilbert at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris ...
MathHappens @ Austin Museum Day – Pioneer Farms
September 24, 2019Stick Stock (Surveyors in Texas before Annexation to the U.S.), ca. 1845, oil on canvas, 14in. x 17 in. framed, Lent by Larry Sheerin, L.2012.2.3 MathHappens is sharing ways that a mathematical device, the survey Chain measurement system invented by Edmund Gunter in the 1600s impacted Texas history as we transitioned- only sort of — from the Mexican Vara ...
I have had a great time until now working for Math Happens. The goal of this organization is to teach children, but I have ended up learning more than I have to offer to the children!