Mathematics underfoot: the formulas that came to Würzburg from New Haven
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Mathematics underfoot: the formulas that came to Würzburg from New Haven
zbMATH Open document ID: 1401.01017
author: A. J. Bracken
published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer
publication date: 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02226
review text: The author has cleared up the question on the meaning of two formulas set in the tiled floor in the foyer of the University of Applied Sciences in Wuerzburg. In 1875, in New Haven, Connecticut, Newton and Phillips published a paper on the curves in the Cartesian plane defined by certain transcendental equations. Two patterns shown in this paper were used in 1879 in Wuerzburg to construct the tiled floor in the building where later Roentgen's laboratory was placed.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A55
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 51M04
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 51N20
zbMATH DE Number: 6932670
zbMATH Keywords: Euclidean geometry
zbMATH Keywords: transcendental curves
reviewed by: V. N. Saliĭ
describes a project that uses: Matlab
MaRDI profile type: Publication
OpenAlex ID: W2983244780
arXiv ID: 1911.02226
cites work: MATLAB compact
DOI: 10.1007/S00283-018-9790-X
description: scientific article