Showing posts with label numbers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label numbers. Show all posts

Friday, September 10, 2010


"Visualisation of the (countable) field of algebraic numbers in the complex plane. Colours indicate the leading integer coefficient of the polynomial the number is a root of (red = 1 i.e. the algebraic integers, green = 2, blue = 3, yellow = 4...). Points becomes smaller as the other coefficients and number of terms in the polynomial become larger. View shows integers 0,1 and 2 at bottom right, +i near top."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_number)

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Ordinals


"A graphical “matchstick” representation of the ordinal ω². Each stick corresponds to an ordinal of the form ω·m+n where m and n are natural numbers."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_number)