In this video, “Collatz Conjecture in Color – Numberphile”, Alex Bellos, a columnist for the Guardian and a mathematical communicator, talks about representing the Collatz conjecture in an innovative and artistic way. He uses his experience working with mathematician Edmund Hariss as evidence. The audience once again is a non-academic audience that is interested in mathematics. He explains the modifications made to trees of Hailstone numbers in terms of rotating the number logs and produces a coral like looking natural structure, which shows the beauty of mathematics and its natural presence.
This video is very useful in terms of illustrating my book because it gives a number of images and the way to make them that would be nice and easy to understand for my audience. It also helps me convey the message to my readers that mathematics is a beautiful area of study and is very useful not only for engineering but for the arts and natural studies
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