2024 Joint Mathematics Meetings
Manish Jain, Maanas Jain
Artists
Manish Jain
Teaching Professor
Center for Creative Learning, IIT Gandhinagar
Gujarat, India
Maanas Jain
Student pursuing medicine
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, India
Jodhpur, India
Statement
Prof Manish Jain is a teaching associate professor at IIT Gandhinagar and heads the Center for Creating Learning. The Center has been working to transform STEM education in India and communicate Science and Maths in an engaging manner to the public since the last 5 years. It has conducted workshops for over 10,000 teachers and developed over 1000 activities and models and has reached over 5 lakh teachers and students. Also, the online programs have received an online viewership of over 1 crore.
Artworks
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This exhibit has three wood-fibre cars that help visualize the effect of parametrically combining sine and cosine waves to obtain smooth curves. Each car uses gear mechanisms to guide a marker along the locus of the curve and plots it on the ground. The first car traces the path of a point on the wheel’s rim and can draw cycloids and trochoids by altering the drawing arm’s length. The second car, via the gear system, oscillates and plots a circle through its x and y movements. The third and the final car, traces waveforms obtained on adding two sine waves of adjustable amplitudes, frequencies and phase difference. Collectively these cars demonstrate how adjustments in mechanical configurations help visualize abstract mathematical functions.