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Eugenia Loh-Gene Cheng is a British mathematician, educator and concert pianist. Her mathematical interests include higher category theory, and as a pianist she specialises in lieder and art song. [5] She is also known for explaining mathematics to non-mathematicians to combat math phobia, often using analogies with food and baking. [6]
Sculptures of minimal surfaces, saddle surfaces, and other mathematical concepts [36] Man Ray. 1890–1976. Fine art. Photographs and paintings of mathematical models in Dada and Surrealist art [37] Naderi Yeganeh, Hamid. 1990–. Fine art.
M. C. Escher. Maurits Cornelis Escher (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmʌurɪts kɔrˈneːlɪs ˈɛɕər]; 17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints, many of which were inspired by mathematics. Despite wide popular interest, for most of his life Escher was neglected in the art world, even ...
Website. artic.edu. The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. The museum is based in the Art Institute of Chicago Building in Chicago 's Grant Park. Its collection, stewarded by 11 curatorial departments, includes works such as Georges Seurat 's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte ...
H. Edmund Harriss. George W. Hart. Vi Hart. Desmond Paul Henry. Anthony Hill (artist) Ingrid Hornef. Tom Hull (mathematician) Jonty Hurwitz.
Amie Wilkinson (born 1968) is an American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago. [1] Her research topics include smooth dynamical systems, ergodic theory, chaos theory, and semisimple Lie groups. [1] Wilkinson, in collaboration with Christian Bonatti and Sylvain Crovisier, [2][3] partially resolved the twelfth ...
Ronald Lewis Graham (October 31, 1935 – July 6, 2020) [1] was an American mathematician credited by the American Mathematical Society as "one of the principal architects of the rapid development worldwide of discrete mathematics in recent years". [2] He was president of both the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association ...
Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914 – May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer with interests also encompassing magic, scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature – especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton. [4][5] He was a leading authority on ...