The Kaleidoscopic Mathematics of Colors

What is amazing about mathematics is that it can be used to represent or approximate reality.  Shapes can be represented by graphs, patterns by equations, and events by mathematical models. In this post, we discuss another type of representation — the mathematics  of colors.

The RGB Colors

Although movies and animations, nowadays, show vibrant and life-like colors, all of the colors we see are just combinations of three primary colors: red, green, and blue. The technology used in many of these movies (both software and hardware) use the red-green-blue or the RGB color model. » Read more

The Mathematician Who Refused 1 Million Dollars

One of the greatest mathematicians of our time is Grigori Perelman.  Perelman solved one of the most difficult problems in mathematics that has puzzled mathematicians for a hundred years, the Poincaré Conjecture.

The Poincaré Conjecture was posted by Henri Poincaré in 1904. It was one of the seven Millenium Prize Problems, the most difficult mathematics problems selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute. A correct solution to any of the unsolved problems can earn the author 1 million dollars. As of this writing, the remaining six problems are still unsolved. » Read more

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