Comments on: You’re darn tootin’

By: CGHill

CGHill — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:24:20 +0000

They probably won't look like Mandelbulbs.

By: canadienne

canadienne — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:22:03 +0000

I’m stuck on trying to visualize a fractal bratwurst.

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:12:16 +0000

Thanks, Elisson, for that laugh.

IIRC, there used to be some Stella D’Oro pastries (I can not find them in my neck of the woods; they may be only a east-of-the-Mississippi thing) that were shaped rather like integral signs.

Though maybe it’s cheating if you look for pastries in the SHAPE of things mathematical; one set of number cookie cutters and Bob would be your uncle.

By: Elisson

Elisson — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:20:54 +0000

“An integral part of this nutritious breakfast. Er, ahhh, I mean mathematics-themed party. “

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:22:53 +0000

Actually, one could just bring Mandelbrot, which are a cookie not unlike biscotti. (Mandelbrot = almond bread in Yiddish and more or less the same thing in German.) Mandelbrot. It amuses me that I can think of three pastries (oh, surely there must be more) with a mathematics related name.

By: CGHill

CGHill — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:25:58 +0000

Who’s bringing the Mandelbrotwurst?

(Sorry, that just slipped out.)

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:17:37 +0000

There are also a European brand of butter cookies known as Liebniz. I always thought it would be kind of awesome to have a mathematics themed party and serve both Newtons and Leibniz.