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Name: Thomas Banchoff General Information
Home Page URL: http://www.geom.umn.edu/~banchoff/projects.html
Brief Description: Remake of "The Flat Torus in the Three-Sphere," a film originally created in 1968; "Complex Function Graphs"; self-linking of curves on the 3-sphere (research in progress); "Monge and Desargues, Identified" (requires Sketchpad); a "sketchpad" for spherical geometry, with interactive demonstrations in Fnord; short treatment of the geometry of least squares; the volume of an n-dimensional ball; the Klein bottle rotating in four-dimensional space; a module for constructing examples of arbitrarily high topological complexity a long-standing and extensive effort to study the life and works of Edwin Abbott Abbott; a partially updated 1990 article concerning Flatland and Hypergraphics.
Stated purpose:
Sponsoring/Funding Institution: Work done at and with the Geometry Center
Persons Involved: Thomas Banchoff, banchoff@geom.umn.edu
Groups and levels they aim to serve: Advanced/research level mathematics.
Highlights...
Here are the areas of the site that are most extensive:
- Most projects come with pages of explanation, gifs, some type of animation (movies, GSP sketches, etc), and references to other sources.
- See "Brief Description" for list of projects.
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