The Story of the Gömböc (2009)

Posted by mhb on Sunday December 31, 2017 @12:13PM
from the plus.maths.org dept.

https://plus.maths.org/content/os/issue52/features/gomboc/index?nl=0

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Re:The Story of the Gömböc (2009) by rzzzt on Monday January 01, 2018 @07:28AM (#16045814)

There is a Gömböc statue in Budapest: http://www.gomboc.eu/en/site.php?inc=&menuId=12&hirId=79

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Re:The Story of the Gömböc (2009) by dang on Monday January 01, 2018 @04:04AM (#16045344)

Discussed in 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2671084.

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Re:The Story of the Gömböc (2009) by bonzini on Monday January 01, 2018 @07:37AM (#16045841)

My wife got me a gomboc for Christmas a few years ago. It's actually surprising how simple the shape is.

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Re:The Story of the Gömböc (2009) by akkat on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @03:00AM (#16050567)

Do you know where she got it? I could only find them for sale for over 100 euros

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Re:The Story of the Gömböc (2009) by bonzini on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @08:07AM (#16051613)

Indeed she got it for that price.

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Re:The Story of the Gömböc (2009) by MichailP on Monday January 01, 2018 @08:46AM (#16046022)

This reminds me of plum dumplings - and they are called gomboc in Hungarian. My late grandmother used to make those, and they were fantastic! Its not served as sweets, more as a main dish. Not that this has anything to do with mathematical objects and points of equilibrium :)

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