On the 26th of April the Pomegranate Team was awarded by the Minister of Education for the distinction of ATOM. Half of us, without Eleni and our kids, that were having the time of their lives in Antalya, tried to explain what ATOM meant to us : Here it is !
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4.28.2012
4.09.2012
3.29.2012
3.23.2012
6.11.2011
"A mathematician's diet" Elefsina's farewell song
Pythagoras, the 6th century B.C. Greek mathematician, scholar and so much more, was a vegetarian and thought that beans were kin to men, so they shouldn’t be eaten. More theories on bean abstinence here
Look out for our film on Pythagora's banquet in Food for thought!
Eratosthenes, the 3rd century B.C. Greek mathematician was able to culculate the earth’s circumference with great proximity. Of course he thought it was a sphere, but mankind forgot that for many centuries later. He starved himself to death, when he realized he was going blind.
More Math and diet trivia:
The Tyrian mathematician Porphyry Malchus, Eratosthenes’ contemporary, was a vegetarian, since he was influenced by Pythagorian theories about animals having a soul.
Kurt Gödel, Eistein’s friend, and one of the most important people of the 20th century, who proved that one cannot attain absolute mathematical truth (incompleteness theorem), starved himself for fear of getting poisoned.
Please remember: Millions of mathematicians were normal eaters!!
6.08.2011
6.06.2011
5.10.2011
5.05.2011
Atom in Greek Student Festival 2011
It took us several hours of work to prepare an old table with wheels and paint it, so it would become the AToM exhibition table in the library. But when we were invited to show the project in the annual student festival in Elefsina, it proved really handy, with all the food and info about Maths and Cooking. Among other things, we made the Avila cookies again (thank you very much, Avila, and many thanks, once more, AToM mom for making them), the fractal salad, we offered a little port with walnuts, the prize for mathematical excellence in Trinity College, England, and added Eratosthenes' sieve, a nice way to find the prime numbers. Click here and see how many "holes" the sieve will have! Of course there were a lot of other things to include, from all countries, but...the table wasn't big enough, so visitors were prompted to visit the AToM blog.
4.27.2011
4.26.2011
4.18.2011
Happy Easter from Greece!
12.20.2010
Xmas Greetings from Elefsina
On the twelfth day of Xmas, my true love gave 2 me
Twelve perfect numbers,
Eleven loops a-leaping,
Ten tangents touching,
Nine diameters,
Eight hypercubes,
Seven spirals spinning,
Six Cantor’s circles,
FIVE MATH RINGS,
Four fractal sets,
three dragon curves,
two square roots and an Axiom of geometry!
12.18.2010
11.26.2010
Elefsina
Here is Elefsina, its archeological site, as photographed yesterday by the Pomegranate team. The puzzle is 2.300 years old and it belongs to Archimedes, the ancient mathematician, one of the three greatest ever. You can print and cut and assemble it. This is a simple way to solve the puzzle that has buffled people so much, it gave them a stomachache. That is probably why it is called "stomachion". Another explanation is that you mingle the parts, just as the stomach mingles food. Do you know the other two top mathematicians?
11.19.2010
11.17.2010
11.10.2010
The Pomegranate Team
Meet the Pomegranate Team in Elefsina, Greece. Chosen because it is a set with subsets and elements (the seeds), it also has a deep symbolism in our culture, which we will soon explain in Food for Thought.
Here are what our names mean in Greek:
- Mother Earth
- The manly one
- The one who brings victory
- The one who liberates
- She who is born
- The youthful one - new member!
- God's gift
- God is gracious
- The one who is found
- The Christian woman
- The Luminous one -new member!
- Ulysses
Two new members to join AToM!
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