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Science News
June 8, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Fractal Roots and Artful Math The MathArt/ArtMath exhibition showcases mathematical art.   |
Science News
December 24, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
A Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities New technologies have made it possible to create 3D models of geometric shapes, magically transforming equations into elegant, intriguing miniatures. |
Science News
June 9, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Mobius Accordion Artist Susan Happersett of Jersey City, N.J., has come up with a novel twist on the venerable Mobius strip: a playful, eye-catching creation she describes as a Mobius accordion... |
Science News
August 12, 2000
Ivars Peterson |
Art of the Grid The practice of laying a grid on top of a drawing, then painstakingly copying each line of the drawing to the corresponding cell of a blank grid has a long history in both mathematics and art. |
Entrepreneur
May 2010
Rosalind Resnick |
Fine Art of Investment When it comes to sinking your money into the art market, caution is critical. |
Science News
February 8, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
A Graceful Sculpture's Showy Snow Crash Brent Collins has spent more than two decades carving gracefully curvaceous sculptures out of wood. Collins is not a mathematician, yet his intuition and aesthetic sense have led him to explore patterns and shapes that have an underlying mathematical logic. |
Science News
November 18, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Form Plus Function Numbers, lines, squares, and shadows add up to an intriguing set of artworks rooted in mathematical concepts. |
Science News
December 18, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Sphere Worlds Artist Dick Termes geometrically translates the view from inside a sphere to the outside of one. |
Science News
December 8, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
The Math Hatter and More Looking for a cool gift for someone mathematically inclined? An unusual, conversation-generating token of appreciation? The World Wide Web offers a number of intriguing possibilities -- if you know where to stop and shop... |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2008
David E. Adler |
For Art's Sake The New York City art auctions in May and June put to rest the idea that gloom in financial markets was spreading into the art market -- at least, not at the very upper end |
Science News
August 26, 2000
Ivars Peterson |
Scrambled Grids Amazingly simple mathematical operations can lead to intriguingly complex results. Consider, for instance, the iterative geometric process of creating flaky pastry dough... |
Science News
September 2, 2000 |
Mobius at Fermilab A description of three-dimensional variants of the Mobius band and mathematical forms in art. |
Lucire
March 20, 2008
M. K. Johnson |
I heart Mike Mills The top ten reasons to be a fan of artist-filmmaker-graphic designer Mike Mills, one of the subjects of the documentary Beautiful Losers. |
Science News
July 1, 2006 |
Science Safari: Mathematical Imagery This set of web pages features albums of math-inspired and mathematically-generated artworks. |
TIME Asia
October 18, 2010
Harrell & Perraudin |
Culturally Invested In the decade before the financial meltdown, curators like Alistair Hicks used some of the banks' huge profits to make those institutions the world's largest holders of contemporary art. |
AskMen.com
August 8, 2006
Ryan Weatherill |
Keep Up In A Contemporary Art Conversation Art is one of the more interesting status symbols around. Theoretically, it's made by poor individuals yearning to express themselves, and purchased by wealthy individuals. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2011
Jenny Sherman |
Art is an Asset More boutique firms that provide wealth managers with financially based art market analysis are cropping up, and a clutch of new art-focused investment funds are launching. |
BusinessWeek
July 22, 2010
Lindsey Pollock |
The Next Big Things at the Greater New York Art Show The show, at P.S. 1, has long been a harbinger of modern art trends. Tauba Auerbach and Alex Hubbard are among its next anticipated stars. |
Science News
January 13, 2007
Ivars Peterson |
Art of the Tetrahedron, Revisited A New Orleans sculptor and his tetrahedron-based artworks survived Hurricane Katrina. |
AskMen.com
Nick Kennedy |
Investing In The Art Exchange "If you can quickly list more titles produced by Van Halen than Van Gogh, then you probably don't have the background to be a successful art collector." |
Science News
July 8, 2000
Ivars Peterson |
Mobius and his Band Discovered in a purely mathematical context, the Mobius strip is the best known of the various toys of topology. Since its discovery in the 19th century, it has also achieved a life of its own beyond mathematics---in magic, science, engineering, literature, music, and art... |
Science News
February 10, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
White Narcissus Alhough sculptor Robert Longhurst's abstract sculptures bear an uncanny resemblance to mathematical forms known as minimal surfaces, they emerge from Longhurst's imagination rather than from mathematics... |
Science News
July 15, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Math Trek: Flirting with the Impossible Common sense by itself is too limiting for making progress in mathematics. New concepts arise out of leaps of imagination. And such out-of-the-box thinking puts mathematics into a rich intellectual landscape that it shares with physics, philosophy, literature, and art. |
Science News
April 8, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Shadows of the Fourth Dimension Tony Robbin creates complex works filled with interwoven patterns and ambiguous figures to give the illusion of seeing more than one object in the same place at the same time. |
Science News
April 5, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Fractured Granite and Fractal Prints A fractured edge of granite tends to show the same degree of roughness at different magnifications. Indeed, nature features many irregular shapes that are self-similar -- that repeat themselves on different scales within the same object. |
Science News
August 14, 2004 |
Women in Mathematics From Maria Gaetana Agnesi to Lai-Sang Young, these Web pages provide biographies of prominent women in mathematics. |
