Impossible Cookware and Other Triumphs of the Penrose Tile - Issue 69: Patterns - Nautilus
The forbidden symmetry of Penrose tiles and quasicrystals.
Link tags: infinity
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The Aleph: Infinite Wonder / Infinite Pity
Just like in the Borges short story, you can now see everything at once …from Project Gutenberg, or from Twitter, or from both.
This may be the only legitimate use case for (truly) infinite scrolling.
BBC - Radio 4 - 5 Numbers
Simon Singh talks about zero, pi, the golden ratio, the square root of minus one, and infinity.