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September 17, 2010 Vol. 15, No. 38
THE MATH FORUM @ DREXEL INTERNET NEWS
Free Mentoring Opportunities | Singing Banana
The Math Forum on Twitter | Running the Numbers
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James Grime, the Singing Banana, calls himself a "mathematician,
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RUNNING THE NUMBERS
http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn/
In Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait (2006-2009),
Chris Jordan documents selected statistics about the United
States in visual format.
For instance, click on what looks like Seurat's masterpiece of
pointilism, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,
to reveal that Jordan has reproduced that painting out of
aluminum cans--106,000 of them, the number used every thirty
seconds in the United States. Similarly, zoom in on an image
of tree trunks by clicking it, and see that Jordan made it out
of 1.14 million brown paper supermarket bags--the number used
in the US every hour.
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James Grime, the Singing Banana, calls himself a "mathematician,
juggler and comedy nerd--but not necessarily in that order."
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puzzles and problems, often illustrating famous theorems.</p>
<p>Read more about James, or follow his blog, Facebook, or Twitter
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States in visual format.</p>
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pointilism, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,
to reveal that Jordan has reproduced that painting out of
aluminum cans--106,000 of them, the number used every thirty
seconds in the United States. Similarly, zoom in on an image
of tree trunks by clicking it, and see that Jordan made it out
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