MathsEntertainment
Figure drawing
Good art and good technique comes from practice, but you can make it easier on yourself by using maths.
Do iPods really shuffle?
Switching to shuffle is a great way of changing up your playlist, but a random mix isn't always best.
A mathematical legacy
Pythagoras was an ancient Greek philosopher who discovered the mathematical structure behind music during the 6th century BC. He was one of the first people to study the properties of numbers, and the relationships between them. As well as recognising the maths of music, he came up the famous theorem for the sides of a right-angled triangle: a² + b² = c².
Symmetry, geometry … dance?
It’s not quite Strictly Come Dancing, but dancers and choreographers use maths in their work all the time.