Nicholas Bakalar
Posts
You Hear the Musical Saw. These Mathematicians Heard Geometry.
A scientist who has studied falling playing cards, coiling rope and other phenomena has now analyzed what transforms a carpenter’s tool into a sonorous instrument.
A 1,500-Year-Old Riddle Solved: Yes, It Was a Terra-Cotta Porta-Potty
The proof was in the, er, concretion.