{"id":2936,"date":"2017-07-05T21:39:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T01:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/blogonmathblogs\/?p=2936"},"modified":"2017-07-05T21:39:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T01:39:09","slug":"mathematics-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/blogonmathblogs\/2017\/07\/05\/mathematics-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathematics in the Eye of the Beholder"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re like me, you might get as excited about the intricate patterns in a museum\u2019s parquet floor<\/a> as in the art hanging on the wall. I love seeing the world through a mathematical lens and celebrating the patterns built into everyday life. We\u2019ve shared image-based math blogs here in the past: complex functions<\/span><\/a>, math gifs<\/span><\/a>, and beautiful geometric designs<\/span><\/a>. Today I\u2019d like to share some of my favorite math photo blogs.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A parquet floor in the palace at Versailles. I guess the stuff on the tables and walls was nice too. Image: Evelyn Lamb<\/p><\/div>\n

The Mathematical Tourist<\/a><\/span> is a daily blog of math-adjacent photographs by math writer Ivars Peterson. He shares photos of architecture<\/span><\/a>, art with mathematical themes<\/span><\/a>, and occasional not-so-mathy stuff.<\/span><\/p>\n

I also enjoy Turismo Matem\u00e1tico<\/span><\/a>, a Spanish (both in language and in country of origin, I believe) math picture blog. They tend to share examples of mathematics in art and architecture, such as\u00a0the many<\/a> mathematical<\/a> details<\/a> of the\u00a0Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona and the many paintings\u00a0containing compasses<\/a> and astrolabes<\/a>. When I was living in Paris earlier this year, I was excited to see posts about things I had seen, particularly\u00a0the climate change equations in the Gare du Nord train station.<\/a>\u00a0Turismo Matem\u00e1tico\u00a0has a short article to accompany each photo, too. It\u2019s in Spanish, so an added bonus is that you can learn a few Spanish words or practice your Spanish while you enjoy some math pictures. (Or take your chances with your browser\u2019s translation if your Spanish isn\u2019t quite up to it.)<\/span><\/p>\n

The MAA used to maintain a page of Found Math<\/span><\/a> images updated every week. It seems to have gone dormant in 2015, but there\u2019s a lot of good stuff in the archives on their website and on their Flickr page<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

World Tessellation Day in June (the 17th, to coincide with M.C. Escher\u2019s birthday) was a fun celebration of tiling patterns in buildings and on sidewalks. I wrote about the holiday, invented by Emily Grosvenor, here last year<\/span><\/a> and on my blog Roots of Unity this year<\/span><\/a>. The Twitter hashtag #worldtessellationday<\/span><\/a> was a lot of fun to watch that day. I learned about a church in Spain that features a marble Penrose tiling<\/span><\/a> (article in Spanish). It\u2019s enough to make you want to plan a trip to Mah\u00f3n!<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you like to take mathy pictures? Share them on Twitter or Instagram using the hashtag #mathphoto or #foundmath.<\/span><\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re like me, you might get as excited about the intricate patterns in a museum\u2019s parquet floor as in the art hanging on the wall. I love seeing the world through a mathematical lens and celebrating the patterns built … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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