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""The connection between mathematics and art goes back thousands of years. Mathematics has been used in the design of Gothic cathedrals, Rose windows, oriental rugs, mosaics and tilings. Geometric forms were fundamental to the cubists and many abstract expressionists, and award-winning sculptors have used topology as the basis for their pieces. Dutch artist M.C. Escher represented infinity, Möbius bands, tessellations, deformations, reflections, Platonic solids, spirals, symmetry, and the hyperbolic plane in his works.


Mathematicians and artists continue to create stunning works in all media and to explore the visualization of mathematics--origami, computer-generated landscapes, tesselations, fractals, anamorphic art, and more.


Visit the albums in Mathematical Imagery
Simulated Snowflakes Crocheted Lorenz Manifolds 2009 Mathematical Art Exhibition
Jean-Francois Colonna :: A Gateway Between Art and Science Gwen L. Fisher :: Woven Beads Dejenie A. Lakew :: Hyper Symmetries
Nathan Selikoff :: Algorithmic Artwork Chaim Goodman-Strauss :: Symmetries Robert J. Lang :: Origami
Carlo Séquin :: Mathematical Images Anne M. Burns :: Gallery of "Mathscapes" George Hart :: Geometric Sculptures
Fractal Art :: Beauty and Mathematics Seifert Surfaces Robert Straight :: Toroids and Plaids
Quilts Mike Field :: Realizations Knots
Bradford Hansen-Smith :: Wholemovement 3D-XplorMath Thomas Hull :: The mathematics of origami
Notices of the American Mathematical Society :: Cover Art    
2009 Mathematical Art Exhibition


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The Mathematical Art Exhibition held at the 2009 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington, DC, included 49 works in various media by 36 artists. Robert Fathauer was the curator of the exhibition, and the exhibition website was prepared by Anne Burns. The exhibition was juried by Fathauer and Burns, along with Nat Friedman and Reza Sarhangi. The inaugural Mathematical Art Exhibition Prizes were awarded. Four judges, selected by the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America, made the following awards: First Prize to Goran Konjevod, for his origami work, "Wave (32), 2006;" Second Prize to Carlo Séquin, for his sculpture, "Figure-8 Knot, 2007;" and Third Prize to Robert Fathauer, for "Twice Iterated Knot No. 1, 2008." The Prize "for aesthetically pleasing works that combine mathematics and art" was established in 2008 through an endowment provided to the American Mathematical Society by an anonymous donor who wishes to acknowledge those whose works demonstrate the beauty and elegance of mathematics expressed in a visual art form. The thumbnail images in the album are presented in alphabetical order by artist last name.

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Crocheted Lorenz Manifolds


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Dr. Hinke Osinga and Professor Bernd Krauskopf (Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol) have turned the famous Lorenz equations into a beautiful real-life object, by crocheting computer-generated instructions of the Lorenz manifold.

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Simulated Snowflakes


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Mathematicians David Griffeath (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Janko Gravner (University of California, Davis) have built a model that generates detailed 3D images of all types of nature's snowflakes.

13 files, last one added on May 11, 2009

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Mathematics and Art, the April 2003 Feature Column by Joe Malkevitch
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Mathematics and Art, (The theme for Mathematics Awareness Monthin 2003)
Viewpoints: Mathematics and Art, by Annalisa Crannell (Franklin & Marshall College) and Marc Frantz (Indiana University)