For some a blogger’s “best friend” is often called a laptop which you can take to the beach, the garden, the bedroom and wherever you go. For me it’s “serendipity”. Just out of the blue, my little eye will spot something more than the info I was looking for and my storytelling mind starts spinning a tale.
Around 1986 our eldest son who was a teenager at that time had access to his Dad’s PC and his computer magazines. In those days computing was in the infant stages and not as smooth as it is now. The love for the early computers and at present was eagerly shared with our children by their Dad who had a Master degree in Science, Physics and Mathematics. It was their Dad who also introduced them at an early age to the Rebus Cube, science games and playing chess.
One day our teenage son showed me with a big smile on his face the spirals and spheres that he had mastered on the computer. I was so impressed and happy for him. In the years that followed, I searched from time to time, for a website showing similar pics as it reminds me of our son, my husband and the time that we were all together as a family.
The moral of this post?
Serendipities can be very sweet, indeed. I found two in one blow!
A link of a website by Mr. Sandor Kabai, a professor of Science and Mathematics in Hungary:
showing spirals/spheres images on the above website and 400 others on the demo site of Wolfram.com where I found something close to what I had been looking for on
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/SunshineLogo/
As I reflected yesterday in my post: “Memory Lane is Always Nearby…”. It are the sweet memories we carry in our hearts that keep us smiling day to day. My 2nd serendipity was the amazing video about Jason D. Padgett, a gentleman who suffers from Savant Syndrome after having been robbed and beaten some years ago. Mr. Padgett is listed on Wikipedia as an American Mathematical Artist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savant_syndrome
As I thought about what happened to Mr. Padgett and others with Savant Syndrome I was made aware again about the saying
“When one door closes God opens a window”.
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Jason Padgett’s Mathematical Art.
