Atractor - Interactive Mathematics

The Faculty of Science and Technology of the UC is an associate member of the Associação Atractor - Matemática Interactiva. CMUC members have always participated in its governing bodies.
Atractor's Webpage

CMUC has been carrying the task of translating into English the Math section of Atractor's site: here.


Pages produced under the supervision of CMUC members:

  • Curvature and Torsion: how to distinguish the shape of a curve
  • Identification numbers with check digit algorithms
  • Math without words
  • Seashells: the plainness and beauty of their mathematical description
  • The mathematical description of seashells growth
  • The shapes and the numbers

  • 3D movie: The math of the shells



  • Ⓒ 2019 Centre for Mathematics, University of Coimbra, funded by