Anyone with a mathematical inclination knows that numbers are beautiful and that pictures of numbers … that is to say, graphs … are even more beautiful.
Whether the graph is of a fractal or an incredibly complex abstract object such as the exceptional Lie group E8 there’s this amazing “ah-ha” moment that mathephiles have when they first see such things.
In this vein is a graph that my friend Dr. Dan just blogged about. I’ve never seen this particular graph before — it’s called the “Parametric Graph of worldwide yearlong sunrises and sunsets” — and it has a beauty that makes it, as Dan puts it, “the most beautiful, the most chock-full of information graph ever, and that includes Minard’s stunning multidimensional map/graph of Napoleon’s March to Russia.”
Curiously I can’t find a graph like it anywhere else on the Web. Nice find Dan.
