[math-fun] video of the AIM
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6956424081422740268 The architect's design for the American Institute of Mathematics, to be built in Morgan Hill, California. The facility is planned to have 167,000 square feet plus an underground parking garage. * * * * looks like there will be plenty of good corner offices. that center plaza thing looks *exactly* like a place in the alhambra, right? -- Thane Plambeck http://www.plambeck.org/ehome.htm
On 8/16/06, Thane Plambeck <thane@best.com> wrote:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6956424081422740268
The architect's design for the American Institute of Mathematics, to be built in Morgan Hill, California. The facility is planned to have 167,000 square feet plus an underground parking garage.
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looks like there will be plenty of good corner offices.
That's beautiful!
that center plaza thing looks *exactly* like a place in the alhambra, right?
I don't know about the Alhambra, but the famous "pi=3" line from the Bible is describing this very thing. 2 Chronicles 4:2-4 2 Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about. 3 And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast. 4 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
Thane Plambeck http://www.plambeck.org/ehome.htm
-- Mike Stay metaweta@gmail.com http://math.ucr.edu/~mike
On 8/16/06, Mike Stay <mike@math.ucr.edu> wrote:
I don't know about the Alhambra, but the famous "pi=3" line from the Bible is describing this very thing. 2 Chronicles 4:2-4
I guess in this case, they're lions instead of oxen: http://www.quovadimus.org/spain99/alhambra/4-700.html -- Mike Stay metaweta@gmail.com http://math.ucr.edu/~mike
At least the biblewriters knew that 3+3+3+3=12. That may be the most accurate thing in the book. Steve Gray
4 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
On 8/16/06, Steve Gray <stevebg@adelphia.net> wrote:
At least the biblewriters knew that 3+3+3+3=12. That may be the most accurate thing in the book.
Steve Gray
No, it's the most precise. (The accuracy is a debate for other mailing lists.) -- Mike Stay metaweta@gmail.com http://math.ucr.edu/~mike
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