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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.
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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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- Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science
- M.C. Escher: the Official Website
- Images and Mathematics, MathArchives
- The Institute for Figuring
- Kalendar, by Herwig Hauser
- The KnotPlot Site
- Mathematical Imagery by Jos Leys
- Mathematics Museum (Japan)
- Visual Mathematics Journal
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- Art & Music, MathArchives
- Geometry in Art & Architecture, by Paul Calter (Dartmouth College)
- Harmony and Proportion, by John Boyd-Brent
- International Society of the Arts, Mathematics and Architecture
- Journal of Mathematics and the Arts
- Mathematics and Art, the April 2003 Feature Column by Joe Malkevitch
- Maths and Art: the whistlestop tour, by Lewis Dartnell
- 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)
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