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    6 Gifs That Will Convince You Maths Is Beautiful

    All images are from the new app Incredible Numbers by Professor Ian Stewart

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    1. The Pattern of The Primes

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    When you arrange all the numbers in a spiral grid, and highlight the primes, a fascinating pattern appears. This is the Ulam Spiral.

    2. The Sunflower Spiral

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    Only with an angle of 137.508 do you get the most beautiful (and efficient) pattern. It does look good spinning though.

    3. Regular Polygons

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    How to draw a perfect pentagon in 2 seconds!

    4. Maths and Music

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    There's some beautiful maths behind the sound of a theremin, but it explains why the thing sounds so awful.

    5. Finding Factors

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    Numbers explode. See each number split into its prime factorisation.

    6. The Enigma Machine

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    Tap the keys and watch the enigma dance.

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