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*Connecting f, f', f''* *HW and Notes **f, f', f''* *QUIZ **f, f', f'' (Week of 2-24)* Video on f, f', f'' *Riemann's SUM. HW 1 (Due **Week of 2-24**)* Vide...
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The relationship between mathematics and art dates way back. Art has been around for what seems like forever, and if you think about it, so has mathematic...
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This blog is no longer active. Please see my website http://www.mymathspace.net The older material will still be here, because of web searches.
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Over 6 years ago, after my first summer in the “Summer MA in English for Teachers” progr
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*A-Day *Weekly Monday Meetings: - 10:30 PM 11:15 PM Click Below to attend: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/120843522 *B-Day *Weekly Tuesday Meetings: - 2:30 PM ...
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This is a new piece that incorporates a 'similar triangles' structure. The GiftThe work’s main image (see below) displays a biblical reference to the Garde...
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Helicoids in Sphere 1938
Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) knew about mathematical models. Martin Hammer and Christine Lodder quote a December 1935 letter from Hepworth to her husband Ben Nicholson: "John Summerson says there are some marvelous things in a mathematical school in Oxford -- sculptural working out of mathematical equations -- hidden away in a cupboard -- I think I shall go to Oxford as soon as I get back from Leeds." [Hammer2, p. 115-116]
Oval with Points (1968-1970)
Henry Moore was born in England, the seventh of ten children, to a coal miner who taught himself enough mathematics to enable him to become manager of the mine in which he worked.
Objet Mathematique [Mathematical object], 1934-36
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Man Ray was an important photographer, film-maker, and painter, primarily associated with the Surrealist movement.
Head of a Woman 1964
Naum Gabo (1890-1977) was a sculptor and a major architect of the Constructivist movement. Gabo's early figurative constructions are reminiscent of of cardboard models of second order surfaces made with interlocking cross sections. [Hammer, p. 50]