Category Archives: Mathematics and the Arts

Dancing Mathy Masters

Posted on July 29, 2013 by bfinegold

Creating or finding patterns, reasoning spatially, tending to aesthetics, being precise, and creating in a universal idiom—these are acts common to both math and dance.   Not everyone is exposed to mathematics via art, especially a performing art.  As a … Continue reading →

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A Tasty Geometric Morsel Every Day

Posted on July 22, 2013 by evelynjlamb

I don’t remember how I first found Geometry Daily. Probably through Twitter. Every day German graphic designer Tilman Zitzmann posts a “new minimal geometric composition.” It’s not exactly a math blog, but I think many mathematicians will, like me, find … Continue reading →

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String Art, Bezier Curves, Picasso, and me

Posted on July 18, 2013 by bfinegold

 Going through some old boxes at my parents house the other day I ran across some line drawings I made as a teenager.  At the time I found it fascinating that just by drawing straight lines I could create beautiful … Continue reading →

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The Poetry of Calculus (The Calculus of Poetry?)

Posted on June 24, 2013 by evelynjlamb

Right now I’m driving from Chicago to Salt Lake City to start a job at the University of Utah. My route has taken me past a lot of silos and water towers, which naturally make me think of related rates. … Continue reading →

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World Science Festival is happening now! (And there’s a lot about math going on)

Posted on May 31, 2013 by bfinegold

A Physicist, two Mathematicians and a Philosopher walk into a room and start to discuss infinity.  This sounds like the set up to a great joke.  But it’s actually one of the events that will occur tonight at 8:00PM EST … Continue reading →

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Binary Bonsai and Other Mathematical “Plants”

Posted on May 6, 2013 by evelynjlamb

Many of us have seen Fibonacci numbers in sunflowers and hyperbolic curvature in kale leaves. Botanica Mathematica, “a textile taxonomy of mathematical plant forms,” takes mathematical-botanical correspondences like these and throws in a little fiber art. “The Botanica Mathematica project … Continue reading →

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