The Mathematician’s Dice are now for sale to the general public!
The Kickstarter project to get these dice to market was an amazing experience. I plan to write the whole thing up and post it here soon.
Tag Archives: math
Mathematician’s Dice on Kickstarter
A while ago I designed the Mathematician’s Dice (on Shapeways), dice with i, 0, 1, φ, e and π on them. Now I’ve launched a Kickstarter project to get a run mass produced! Check it out, and donate or pass it on to friends:
Union Jack Cube and Trapped Outside
Finally received prints of my two new rapid-prototyped 3-d sculptures: a revised version of Trapped Outside:
And a three-dimensional, assemble-it-yourself version of the Union Jack Cube:
Toroidal breakfast instructions
Slice your bagel into two linked halves, for a geometrically nourishing breakfast.
Polyhedral lamps
I first saw these lamps selling for hundreds of dollars a pop in a fancy lighting store in Köln in 2003. Now I can build my own.
An Incrediby Simple Theory of Everything?
Garret Lisi, A PHD physicist with no university affiliation, who allegedly spends most of his time surfing in Hawaii or snowboarding in Tahoe, has submitted a 31-page paper for preprint titled “An Incrediby Simple Theory of Everything.” (The poor guy’s webpage is down, but Google’s cache indicates that he’s a burner too.) The paper departs from string theory, the TOE du jour in theoretical physics, and it’s got physicists talking. The inimitable Lee Smolin calls it “one of the most compelling unification models I’ve seen in many, many years,” and the press is branding Lisi a new Einstein.
This brings up the usual brouhaha about the mainstream media picking up scientific papers before peer review, but this time it seems that the blame is on the press, not the scientist.
Sounds like an interesting guy, and I hope for his sake he’s right, because how on earth could he ever live it down if he’s not?