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Math Images Project. The logo of the Math Images Project. The Math Images Project is a wiki collaboration between Swarthmore College, the Math Forum at Drexel University, and the National Science Digital Library. The project aims to introduce the public to mathematics through beautiful and intriguing images found throughout the fields of math.
Australian forests are mostly made up of evergreen species, particularly eucalyptus trees in the less arid regions; wattles replace them as the dominant species in drier regions and deserts. Among well-known Australian animals are the monotremes (the platypus and echidna ); a host of marsupials , including the kangaroo , koala, and wombat, and ...
(more unsolved problems in mathematics) Directed graph showing the orbits of small numbers under the Collatz map, skipping even numbers. The Collatz conjecture states that all paths eventually lead to 1. The Collatz conjecture [a] is one of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics. The conjecture asks whether repeating two simple arithmetic operations will eventually transform every ...
The palmar grasp reflex (or grasp reflex) is a primitive and involuntary reflex found in infants of humans and most primates. When an object, such as an adult finger, is placed in an infant's palm, the infant's fingers reflexively grasp the object. [1] Placement of the object triggers a spinal reflex, resulting from stimulation of tendons in ...
A reflex arc is a neural pathway that controls a reflex. In vertebrates, most sensory neurons do not pass directly into the brain, but synapse in the spinal cord. This allows for faster reflex actions to occur by activating spinal motor neurons without the delay of routing signals through the brain. The brain will receive the input while the ...
Reflexive space. In the area of mathematics known as functional analysis, a reflexive space is a locally convex topological vector space for which the canonical evaluation map from into its bidual (which is the strong dual of the strong dual of ) is a homeomorphism (or equivalently, a TVS isomorphism ). A normed space is reflexive if and only ...
Falling cat problem. A falling cat modeled as two independently rotating parts turns around while maintaining zero net angular momentum. The falling cat problem is a problem that consists of explaining the underlying physics behind the observation of the cat righting reflex . Although amusing and trivial to pose, the solution of the problem is ...
Image showing recursively generated rays from the "eye" (and through an image plane) to a light source after encountering two diffuse surfaces. To the right is an image showing a simple example of a path of rays recursively generated from the camera (or eye) to the light source using the above algorithm.