A Clockmaker, an Egg, and a Cathedral

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The Art of Mathematics

Carol Jacoby

72 episodes

2 days ago

Conversations, explorations, conjectures solved and unsolved, mathematicians and beautiful mathematics. No math background required.

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Conversations, explorations, conjectures solved and unsolved, mathematicians and beautiful mathematics. No math background required.

Mathematics

Science

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A Clockmaker, an Egg, and a Cathedral

The Art of Mathematics

14 minutes 2 seconds

5 months ago

A Clockmaker, an Egg, and a Cathedral

Jeanne Lazzarini tells us how a clockmaker used an egg to win the competition to build the dome of the Florence Cathedral. The Cathedral had had a huge gaping hole for a hundred years since no one knew how to build such a large dome. His solution involved the equation for a hanging chain and parallel lines that meet.