choose your career

For a project at work, I'm looking into using some of the isotypes developed by Gerd Arntz in the 1930s. He created isotypes for thousands of different objects, animals, professions, etc. In general they're as simple as possible while remaining instantly recognizable. For example, here are three in the professions category:





And then there's this guy:



Maybe being a mathematician is a lot more exciting in Germany.

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Mel said…
Hey, one of the math team events in high school was "juggling equations while tap-dancing in a tuxedo." ;)

On a more serious (but still fun) note, there's a lot of nifty abstract algebra that underlies complex juggling tricks. So I suppose it's not so far off...

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