Pieter Zeeman

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1902 was awarded jointly to Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Pieter Zeeman “in recognition of the extraordinary service they rendered by their researches into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena.”

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Mathematical Anarchy

An anarchist mathematician used five different simple equations for his graffiti. When you graph them, you will see the mathematical anarchy!

Z Proportions

Becca Hirsbrunner photographed this fabulously constructed Z proportions letter. Interestingly, every element but the diagonal bar can be rationalized.

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Math Textbook with Cat Pictures

Sheldon Axler is a funny math professor and he put his cats' pictures into his math textbook, Precalculus: A Prelude to Calculus.

NASA Scientists in 1961

In 1961 NASA scientists worked hard to send an American astronaut to the moon. And we have this beautiful photo from those days.

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Mandelbrot Island

When Alexis Monnerot-Dumaine rendered Mandelbrot set as an island using the fractal-based landscape generator, Terragen, he got this Mandelbrot island.