Math Trek: A Video That's Worth a Million Words

from Science News

Abstraction lies at the heart of mathematics. It makes math powerful, but
at the same time, it can make math hard to understand. Abstraction makes
math simultaneously beautiful and austere, useful and esoteric.

But a picture can tame the mad monster of abstraction, and sometimes, a
video can do so even better. Now, a pair of mathematicians has created a
video (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX3VmDgiFnY) that shows how to
visualize and understand Mobius transformations, which are a fundamental
and highly abstract mathematical tool.

The new video, "Mobius Transformations Revealed," has become an Internet
sensation, with 60,000 hits on YouTube so far. It also won honorable
mention in the Science 2007 Science and Engineering Visualization
challenge.

To read more: https://www.sciencenews.org/articles...7/mathtrek.asp