Sunday, January 8, 2012

Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land

The beauty of the laws of mathematics in the 1959 film, Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land, suggested by a web design student:
from 1959 Disney film on YouTube
  • Pythagoras
  • Math in Music
  • Golden Section 
           o   by architects and painters
           o   in nature - flowers, starfish, trees
           o   has logic and patterns
  • Games (chess, Lewis Carroll, baseball, football field, 3-cushion billiards)
  • Sections of Cones - drums, lenses, in the mind first - "no paper large enough to hold your imagination" (such as infinity)
  • "Mathematics is the alphabet with which God has written the universe," by Galileo