From Pythagoras to Berggren and Beyond
This is a place where numbers have places.
Some places are occupied. Some are empty. Some seem to lead somewhere familiar; others lead somewhere unexpected.
At first, you may see only a pattern—a tapestry of points, lines, curves, and spaces between them.
But look a little longer.
The pattern begins to suggest a landscape. Sometimes what is not there is as interesting as what is.
Here, α and γ are coordinates. They are not merely symbols in an equation; they are the means by which we find our way around.
I did not set out to construct this place.
I stumbled into it.
What follows is an account of some of what I found there :
