[extropy-chat] MATH: Minimal surface index?

[Emlyn]

I don't know about an engine for searching for maths theorems. Google has a
code specific search:

http://www.google.com/codesearch

Emlyn


On 15/11/06, Anders Sandberg <asa at nada.kth.se> wrote:
>
>
> Perhaps a bit too math-nerdy, but does anybody know this minimal surface?
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/87547772@N00/296867895/
> I came up with it recently and it is so simple that it ought to be in the
> literature but I have not seen anything close. All minimal surface sites I
> have seen have lists of interesting surfaces, but no real attempt to list
> them all (sure, they are uncountably many).
>
> Overall, I wonder how to best search for theorems and mathematical
> concepts you know ought to exist but you lack the name of, or even the
> related terminology. We are getting search engines that can search image
> databases using drawn pictures (http://shape.cs.princeton.edu/search.html)
> or examples in photos (http://www.like.com/). It ought to be possible to
> create a math search engine (a truth mine) allowing you to look for
> theorems based on structure or the use of special functions.
>
> --
> Anders Sandberg,
> Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
> Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University
>
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