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Vladimir Igorevich Arnold receiving the first numbered Gömböc 001. Moscow, August 2007

Sir Roger Penrose explains, using Gömböc 1466, the concept of unstable equilibrium to Wadham Warden Robert Hannigan

Endre Szemerédi plays with his Gömböc

Sir Konstantin Novoselov explains stability, using Gömböc 1905, to Ambassador Judit Pach in Singapore

Cédric Villani: "Gömböc is like a mythological creature, it reminds me of the griffon bird."

Jonathan Keating with Gömböc 2023 in Beijing, July 2023.

Sir Michael Berry: "Gömböc exists in Nature, but only as a dream.", 2014

Stephen Smale at the 2011 Smale Prize ceremony in Budapest. Snorre H. Christiansen holding the Smale-Gömböc in his hand.

Curtis T. McMullen finds the stable point of Gömböc 1636, Harvard University, 2019.

Stanislav Smirnov discussing mechanical equilibrium with Sir Michael Berry in Budapest, September 2022.

László Székelyhidi holding Gömböc 1409: "Gömböc fascinates me because it holds a universal property among all possible forms in space, and it was so difficult to find.", 2017.

John O'Keefe after receiving a Gömböc at the Hungarian Embassy in London, 2023.

The Master, Lord Martin Rees balances Gömböc 1546 at Trinity College, Cambridge, 2008.

Sir Michael Berry explains mechanical equilibrium to David Gross, using Gömböc 2023 in the lobby of the Sunsrise Kempinski Hotel in Beijing, on July 19th 2023.

Gömböc 1877 in Tokyo in front of Takeshi Saito, Takashi Tsuboi and Toshitake Kohno, 2019

Gömböc 108 and His Holiness Shamar Rinpoche, the XIV. Shamarpa in Kalimpong, 2010

Stephen Fry with his individual Gömböc 1729.

Karikó Katalin játszik herendi Gömböcével — Katalin Karikó plays with her Herend Gömböc

Dame Frances Kirwan & Gömböc Nr. 400

Sir Michael Berry (left), Shing-Tung Yau (center) and Wei Liu (right) with Gömböc 2023 in Beijing in 2023 at the Beijing Insitute of Mathematical Sceinces and Applications (BIMSA).

Alvin Roth receives his Gömböc at Corvinus Universioty in July 2024.

Paul Milgrom enjoys his blue Gömböc at Stanford, in July 2024

Anne L'Huillier and Ferenc Krausz receive Gömböc 170 and Gömböc 80 at ELI-ALPS, Szeged, on June 14th 2024.

NuMBERED GÖMBÖC MODELS ON EXHIBIT

Gömböc Nr. 001 at Steklov Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Gömböc Nr. 1209 at the Whipple Museum of Sciences

Gömböc Nr. 0013 in Windsor Castle

Gömböc Nr. 1854 at the collection of ETH Zürich Library

Gömböc Nr. 100 at Kepes Center, Eger, Hungary

Gömböc Nr. 1343 with Duccio Bertoni and Marco Abate at the University of Pisa

Gömböc Nr. 1746 at Fine Hall, Princeton University

Gömböc Nr. 1802 at the Hungarian National Museum, 2012

Gömböc Nr. 1636 at Harvard University

Gömböc Nr. 1409 at the University of Leipzig, with László Székelyhidi

Gömböc Nr. 1209 at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, at Cambridge

Gömböc Nr. 1737 at the mathematical collection of the University of Göttingen

Gömböc Nr. 1740 at the University of Pennsylvania

Gömböc 1865 at Cornell University

Gömböc 1893 at Sobolev Institute, Novosibirsk

Gömböc 1928 at Poincaré Institute, Paris

Gömböc Nr. 1935 at the Courant Institute, New York University

Gömböc Nr. 1978 with Boris Kruglikov at Tromso, Arctic University of Norway

Gömböc Nr. 2013 in Oxford

Gömböc Nr. 2016 at the University of Auckland, New Zealand

Gömböc Nr. 2018 at IMPA (Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada), Rio de Janeiro

Gömböc Nr. 1910 in South Africa

EVENTS

Award-winning photo of large plexiglass Gömböc by Alain Goriely, 2014

Gömböc Nr. 1924 symbolising the stability of the Hungarian currency, at the Hungarian National Bank, 2008, arriving 1 month before the global financial crisis

Gömböc Nr. 1386 balanced by Bernhard Eitel, rector of the University of Heidelberg, 2019

MIT-Harvard oral insulin capsule developed based on the Gömböc shape, 2019

PENN/GRASP drone in Gömböc-shaped frame, 2015

Emirates Team New Zealand catamaran, designed by the Gomboc software, sailing to win the America's Cup in 2017

'Line of flight 2', painting of Vivien Zhang, inspired by the Gömböc shape, 2016

Exhibition of Ryan Gander Lisson Gallery, London: "The Self Righting of all Things", 2018

Gömböc statue being installed at Corvin quarter, Budapest, 2017

Giant Gömböc Nr. 008, 2009

Visitors of the Hungarian Pailion at Shanghai World expo, 2010

Visitors of the Hungarian Pailion at Shanghai World expo, 2010

Visitors of the Hungarian Pailion at Shanghai World expo, 2010

Vivien Zhang's painting:

The Gömböc on the cover of the Mathematical Intelligencer, 2006 and Gazéta de Matematica, 2021

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