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The Magical Mathematics of Doodling
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Rachel Mansur
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For someone who loves math as much as Vi Hart (a self-proclaimed "mathematical musician"), she doesn't pay an awful lot of attention to her math teacher. But that's ok. Cuz somehow her wonderfully whimsical doodling transforms into mini lessons on graph theory, mobius strips, binaries, fractals and more.

Snakes and Graphs

Infinity Elephants

Binary Trees

Stars

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Ruben S. (47) 1/10/11 2:29 PM
That was very Cool! I <3 Doodling!
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NachoCheese (3) 1/10/11 5:54 PM
you are very smart and talented
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