The unexpected math behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night" - Natalya St. Clair
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-unexpected-math-behind-van-gogh-s-starry-night-natalya-st-clair Physicist Werner Heisenberg said, “When I meet God, I am going to ask him...
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One of the most remarkable aspects of the human brainis its ability to recognize patterns and describe them.Among the hardest patterns we've tried to understandis the concept of turbulent flow in fluid dynamics.The German physicist Werner Heisenberg said,"When I meet God, I'm going to ask him two questions:why relativity and why turbulence?I really believe he will have an answer for the first."As difficult as turbulence is to understand mathematically,we can use art to depict the way it looks.In June 1889, Vincent van Gogh painted the view just before sunrisefrom the window of his room at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylumin Saint-Rémy-de-Provence,where he'd admitted himself after mutilating his own earin a psychotic episode.In &am...
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One of the most remarkable aspects of the human brainis its ability to recognize patterns and describe them.Among the hardest patterns we've tried to understandis the concept of turbulent flow in fluid dynamics.The German physicist Werner Heisenberg said,"When I meet God, I'm going to ask him two questions:why relativity and why turbulence?I really believe he will have an answer for the first."As difficult as turbulence is to understand mathematically,we can use art to depict the way it looks.In June 1889, Vincent van Gogh painted the view just before sunrisefrom the window of his room at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylumin Saint-Rémy-de-Provence,where he'd admitted himself after mutilating his own earin a psychotic episode.In &am...
