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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]
Rencontre dans la porte tournante by Man Ray, 1922, with helix. Four-dimensional geometry in Painting 2006-7 by Tony Robbin. Quintrino by Bathsheba Grossman, 2007, a sculpture with dodecahedral symmetry. Heart by Hamid Naderi Yeganeh, 2014, using a family of trigonometric equations [2]
Jesse Ernest Wilkins Jr. (November 27, 1923 – May 1, 2011) [1] was an American nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer and mathematician. A child prodigy, he attended the University of Chicago at the age of 13, becoming its youngest ever student. [2][3][4] His graduation at a young age resulted in him being hailed as "the Negro Genius" in the ...
Bhama Srinivasan (born 22 April 1935 [1]) is a mathematician known for her work in the representation theory of finite groups. Her contributions were honored with the 1990 Noether Lecture. She served as president of the Association for Women in Mathematics from 1981 to 1983. Srinivasan earned her Ph.D. in 1959 with her dissertation Problems on ...
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 ...
Stanisław Szukalski (13 December 1893 – 19 May 1987) was a Polish sculptor and painter who became a part of the Chicago Renaissance. [1] Szukalski's art exhibits influence from ancient cultures such as Egyptian, Slavic, and Aztec combined with elements of art nouveau, from the various currents of early 20th century European modernism - cubism, expressionism, futurism and pre-Columbian art.
Frieder Nake. Frieder Nake (born December 16, 1938) is a mathematician, computer scientist, and pioneer of computer art. He is best known internationally for his contributions to the earliest manifestations of computer art, a field of computing that made its first public appearances with three small exhibitions in 1965. [1]
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 ...