Advanced Texts

Maybe you want to go deeper into mathematics. Then you’ve come to the right place with the advanced texts. Here you will find mathematical and historical background information on many of the exhibits. The texts are constantly being updated with new ones. So feel free to check back in the future.

3

3 times 4

A

Archimedes Screw

B

Benford's Law

C

Conway-Cube

Coriolis-Fountain

Cone Sections

Crack the Code

Circle and Ellipse

D

Dust circles

E

Elliptic mountains and conic sections

Euler's lines

F

Factor Clock

Foucault's Pendulum

G

Galilei's Tank

Galton Board

Giant soap film

Golden Ratio

H

Have the courage

How big is the area of a circle?

I

I am a function

K

Klarner's Theorem

L

Leonardo Bridge

M

Mirage

Möbius Street

Musical Dice Game

O

Ornament

Oscillating Spheres

P

Platonic Bodies

Pythagoras to lay

Pythagorean Theorem

R

Rotating mirror

Round trips through saxony

S

Shortest distance on the globe

Shadows of Objects

Sine

Smarties

Sound Gyro

Sum of the square numbers

T

The circle number π

The Circular Surface

Tracery

Triad Triangles

Triad Polyeder

Toggle Lights

Tower of Ionah

Twelve Corners

W

Wobble Stone

World Population Clock

Wonderful Soap Films

Y

Yamātārājabhānasalagā