IMAGINARY is your place for open and interactive mathematics. You can explore great programs, enjoy beautiful picture galleries and create hands-on math exhibits. Share your own ideas and modules. Stage your own exhibitions.

Inform yourself about the different exhibitions in the explore section. Here you will also find all related content for download. 
The interact section is the place to share your ideas: Upload your own galleries or programs, see what others are contributing and get in touch with the community.
The think section provides interesting background material on different mathematical topics – for beginners and experts.

Imaginary News

Article in Le Scienze about IMAGINARY platform
Mar. 12, 2013
Article in Le Scienze

The Italian edition of Scientific American, Le Science, has published a very nice piece by Roberta Fulci about the IMAGINARY platform launch. You can find it here (in Italian). 

Have you seen more articles or references about IMAGINARY in the news? If so, please let us...Read more

Big media and user response
Mar. 7, 2013

We are very happy that the user response to the new IMAGINARY platform was so big - too big for our server capacity. Today in the morning we registered 1.3 million accesses on the site (before 11:30 am) and we had to react quickly to shift the website to a new server. This caused several delays and also the platform was not online for about 2 hours. We are very sorry for this! 

Now the platform is up and...Read more

MPE and IMAGINARY Platform: Launch in Paris
Feb. 10, 2013
MPE Logo

On March 5, 2013 the new exhbition “Mathematics of Planet Earth” (MPE) and the new IMAGINARY platform will be launched oficially at the MPE UNESCO day. The platform will host the open source exhibition, which will be physically displayed for the first time at UNESCO and remain there until March 8. The venue is the...Read more

Opening of the MoMath
Dec. 12, 2012
The Formula Morph exhibit at the MoMath, New York

The new Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) will open its doors in Manhattan, New York. “Mathematics illuminates the patterns and structures all around us. Our dynamic exhibits and programs will stimulate inquiry, spark curiosity, and reveal the wonders of mathematics. The Museum will have its grand opening on Saturday, December 15, 2012 at 11 East 26th Street in Manhattan.”

IMAGINARY is present with one...Read more

MPE2013 is launched!
Dec. 7, 2012

MPE2013 is launched internationally!

Citation from Irena Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO:
“UNESCO strongly supports this extraordinary collaboration of mathematicians around the world to advance research on fundamental questions about planet Earth, to nurture a better understanding of global issues, to help inform the public, and to enrich the...Read more

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Latest Exhibits

Suzhi Kolangal/South Indian Traditional Art
Uploaded by: Brunda Alagarsamy

In Tamilnadu, one would find a finest drawn and artistic drawing decorating every house at the front entrance.

These drawings are not just merely a decoration, but it has lot more...

Cybernetic Planets
Uploaded by: Christian Gaier

Cybernetic planets are constructed by combination of spheres with multiple sinusoidal functions of different wave length in x-, y- and z-direction....

Harmonic Art
Uploaded by: Pablo Groisman

A graph on the plane is a set of points linked by edges. If two points are linked we call them neighbors. Harmonic graphs are those that have the property that each point is exactly in the center...

Stepan Tersian, Gallery I
Uploaded by: Stepan Tersian

Eight photos and seven pictures are included in the Gallery I. They are inspired by my visit at Faculty of Mathematics, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. I saw and I was wondered by the...

1-3-5-3-1 Single Stroke Kolam (Single Knot Pattern)
Uploaded by: Brunda Alagarsamy

Single stroke kolam/ Single knot pattern is a traditional art of south India. Mathematics plays a major role in drawing kolams. One needs to understand rotation by 90 degree, 180 degree and so on...

Events

Second ESMA Conference in Cagliari
Sep. 18, 2013 to Sep. 20, 2013
University of Cagliari|Palazzo delle Scienze, Via Ospedale, 72|Cagliari|CA|09124 |IT
IMAGINARY at the Bridges Conference 2013
Jul. 27, 2013 to Jul. 31, 2013
Saxion University of Applied Sciences|Van Galenstraat 19|Enschede|7511|NL
SURFER at "Salon culture et jeux mathématiques" in Paris
May. 30, 2013 to Jun. 2, 2013
Parvis de la Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie|30 Avenue Corentin Cariou|Paris|75019|FR

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Latest user blog entries

Formulas
May. 23, 2013
by: Hannes Grimm-Strele

In an interview with Villani in Le Monde, I found the following concerning the bunch of formulas in the book:

“La mathématique, c’est comme tout : cela peut se raconter à n’importe quel degré de complexité. D’ailleurs, l’une des raisons de mentionner dans mon…Read more

Articles
May. 19, 2013
by: Hannes Grimm-Strele

My father sent me the original article in the FAS, and I rechecked what I wrote about it before. The original citation concerning Perelman is

”[…] ich bin weit von Perelmans Niveau entfernt, und nehme an, ohne mich zu zieren.”

(“I am far…Read more

Frightening Norms
May. 14, 2013
by: Hannes Grimm-Strele

Today I’ve seen the most frightening norm of my life, and it was not in a mathematical textbook… Villani is just telling about his time at the Institute of Advanced Studies.…Read more

In the middle of Chapter 6
May. 11, 2013
by: Hannes Grimm-Strele

I rememberd another detail from the FAZ article about the book. When asked whether he thought about rejecting the Fields medal as Perelman did in 2008, Villani replied: “I am not genius enough” (or at least something similar). What did he mean by that?

I…Read more

The First Impression
May. 10, 2013
by: Hannes Grimm-Strele

Andreas pointed out to me that the article in the Zeit is publicly available (in German only):

http://www. zeit.de/2013/18/cedric-villani-das-lebendige-theorem/

I…Read more