Life Through a Mathematician's Eyes

Did you ever play with soap bubbles? Did you ever think about changing the circle with any other shape and see what was going to happen with the bubbles? Plateau studied not the actual soap bubbles, but the soap film. Plateau's Problem A ring dipped into a basin of soap water comes out spanned by a shimmering, iridescent film - a thin flat disk. This is the minimal surface defined by a circle. Plateau observed that any loop of wire, no matter how bent, bounds at least one soa

Yesterday, I spoke about topology in general. There is still one piece of information that I would like to share. It is funny, interesting and a bit of a surprise at first glance. I remember how amused I was first time I learnt about this. A doughnut and a coffee cup I never imagined that a doughnut and a coffee cup have anything in common. It never occured to me to look at the number of holes in a surface. Genus In mathematics, genus (plural genera) has a few different, but

One of the most interesting areas from mathematics is topology. It is quite complex and the theory is sometimes hard to digest, but it is so interesting and it has some of the most beautiful visual representations (when we can actually do them). Topology Topology (often described as the rubber-sheet or plasticene geometry - where distances have little meaning) is concerned with the properties of a geometric object that are preserved under continuous deformations, such as stre