Big math news! It’s been thirty years since mathematicians last found a convex pentagon that could “tile the plane.” The latest discovery (by Jennifer McLoud-Mann, Casey Mann, and David Von Derau) was published earlier this month. Full story.
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official-german-translationen:
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I got to go there on an EU conference visit. It’s actually really neat. The dome also provides light to the room through magnification mirrors and reduces energy costs. You can see all of berlin while walking around the walkway.
Here’s what it looks like inside
It makes a good cover for math books too
The German parliament building has a glass dome above it that people can walk over. This is to remind the politicians that government should be transparent, and the people are always above them.
Oh, oh, this reminds me of the only known bilingual palindrome:
Anger? ‘Tis safe never. Bar it! Use love.
Spell that backward and you get:
Evoles ut ira breve nefas sit; regna!
Which is Latin for:
Rise up, in order that your anger may be but a brief madness; control it!
Whenever I see stuff like this I wonder how people even come up with it.
