- Math-Art Exhibit - Daryl Hepting, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Eighteen examples of art created through mathematical concepts, some accompanied by detailed information about their generation.
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- mathartfun.com - Robert Fathauer
Learn and purchase products about tessellations, polyhedra, new perspectives (anamorphic art), fractals, M.C. Escher, tangrams and dissections, kaleidoscopes and symmetry, and paper folding. The gallery of mathematical art contains twisted ribbons and
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- Math Art Gallery - Dept. of Mathematics, University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Links to Singularity knots; Singularity knot animations; and Pictures generated by vort. Also a few 3D fractals; g=1, g=2, and g=3 surfaces plus source files for creating the pictures; source files; Interactive art in Minnesota, and All kinds of beautiful
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- Math-Art.net
A web gallery of mathematical art, including a blog. Math-Art.net features artworks, artists, and interviews. It covers many forms of mathematics, as long as there are artistic imagery involved (this means the usual Chaos Theory, geometry and the like).
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- MathByMandy.com - Mandy Bellm
Bellm's soft cover workbook Coordinate Graph Art for Grades 6-8 contains reproducible worksheets, full-page keys following each puzzle, and instructional sections. The Waconia, MN, 7th grade pre-algebra teacher blogs about technology in the classroom,
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- Math Craft - Cory Poole, administrator
A community "dedicated to the exploration of mathematically inspired art and architecture through projects, community submissions, and inspirational posts." Share images, videos, and other resources on the corkboard; post questions to the forum. The blog
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- Math Dance - Karl Schaffer and Erik Stern
The Dr. Schaffer & Mr. Stern Dance Ensemble has performed and conducted workshops on math dance in hundreds of schools and conferences since 1987. From that work, Co-Artistic Directors Karl Schaffer and Erik Stern wrote MathDance, a 132-page book with
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- Mathematical Art - Artpromote.com
A list of links to mathematical art and artists.
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- The Mathematical Art of M.C. Escher - B. Sidney Smith; Math Academy Online/Platonic Realms
An excellent introduction to the mathematics in Escher's art, organized into areas: tessellations, polyhedra, the shape of space, the logic of space, and self-reference and information.
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- Mathematical Backgrounds - Data Shaping Solutions
An interactive, online background generator for creating mathematical backgrounds with original patterns (fractals, carpets, dithering, etc.), textures, and palettes. Matgrounds could be used by carpet designers, and has produced interesting mathematical
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- Mathematical Fiction - Alex Kasman
Want a book or story for the students in your math class? Interested in what our society thinks about mathematicians? This site is dedicated to compiling and reviewing works of fiction that involve mathematics or mathematicians. Search the list of math
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- Mathematical Imagery - American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Mathematics and art come together in these albums of math-inspired and mathematically-generated works, which may be sent as e-postcards, links to online galleries and museums, and to other resources about mathematics and art.
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- Mathematical Museum and Exhibitions - ZIB/Math-Net
A selected collection of links with many images referring to the History of Mathematics, the History of Computer Science, and other Related Fields; Digital Art and Galleries collections; Visualizations and Animations of scientific data; Didactical Items,
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- Mathematical Paintings and Sculptures - Vlad Alexeev
Blog featuring artworks and sculptures based on mathematical principles, especially fractals and Escherian images.
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- Mathematical Paintings of Crockett Johnson - David Crockett Johnson; Smithsonian National Museum of American History
David Crockett Johnson was perhaps most famous for his children's book Harold and the Purple Crayon. From 1965 until his death in 1975, Crockett Johnson painted over 100 works relating to mathematics and mathematical physics. Of these paintings, eighty
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- Mathematical Palette - Guillermo Bautista
A blog that "highlights the lighter side of mathematics.... photos, paintings, songs, poems, jokes, animations, graphics, games, and puzzles and the mathematics within and about them." Posts, which date back to February, 2012, have celebrated "mathematical
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- The Mathematical Tourist - Ivars Peterson
"Cool stuff" that Peterson, the Director of Publications and Communications at the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), encounters while "browsing the world of mathematics and computer science: new developments in math and its applications, old
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- The Mathematician's Shirt - Collins, Julia; and Shepherd, Madeleine
A collaboration between mathematician Julia Collins and artist Madeleine Shepherd to "design and create a series of sculptures made out of shirts and representing different concepts in mathematics." With funding by the Art Science Collaborative (ASCUS),
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- Mathematics Across the Curriculum (MATC) - Dartmouth College
An NSF-funded project which strives to integrate the study of mathematics into the whole curriculum. MATC Courses: Mathematics and the Humanities (Pattern, Chaos, Late Renaissance Thought and the New Universe, Math and Science Fiction, Geometry in Art
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- Mathematics and Art - Marc Frantz, Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis
Course syllabus, topics, text, resources, lecture notes, and quizzes, predominantly available in PDF format. Topics include mathematical perspective, anamorphic art, and fractals. Includes a long page of links to other sites with math and art resources.
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- Mathematics and Music - Michael Beer
An essay in PDF format providing a short overview of the relationship between mathematics and music. Topics include: Tone and tuning: the Pythagorean perception of music; Mathematical music: Fibonacci numbers and the golden section in musical compositions;
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- mathematics - art - nature - Anne Burns, Long Island University
Burns' gallery of "mathscapes" shows examples of mathematics used to create scenery. Experiment with her interactive Flash programs and applets: Möbius transformations; a Pythagorean tree; "algorithmic 'art'"; Lissajous curves; plants using string
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- Mathematics Experiences Through Image Processing (METIP) - Steve Tanimoto; Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Univ. of Washington
A project designed to produce and test materials that promote digital image processing as a means of motivating K-12 students in mathematics and to teach mathematical concepts, encouraging teachers and students to experiment first-hand with digital images
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- Mathematics in Art and Architecture - Helmer Aslaksen
An interdisciplinary course on mathematics in art and architecture, including the pyramids, Dürer and da Vinci, kaleidoscopes, the Golden Ratio and the Platonic solids, symmetry and patterns, music, Vitruvius, mazes and labyrinths, the origin of
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- Mathematics in John Robinson's Symbolic Sculpture - University of Wales, Bangor
Art and mathematics are combined in this site, which explores Borromean Rings, The Möbius Band, Bernard Morin and the Brehm Model, The Projective Plane, Fibre Bundles, Knots and Links, Torus Knots, and Fractals through the work of sculptor John Robinson.
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- Mathematics Museum (Japan)
Exhibits: Deformation of Catenoid to Helocoid; Geometry of wallpaper patterns (with interactive examinations); Math-Cut Studium; Soliton-Lab Art Gallery; Sangaku (Japanese temple geometry problem); The beauty of surfaces; Kodawari House, Keiichi Suzuki's
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- Mathematiksoftware S I und SII (vorwiegend Shareware) - Monika Schwarze
Eine Zusammenstellung nützlicher Mathematikprogramme aus dem Shareware-Markt zur Aufarbeitung von Lernrückständen, Wiederholung und Stärkung der Sicherheit mathematischer Rechenroutinen. Vor allen die Programme für die SII dienen der Überprüfung gemachter
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- Mathematische Basteleien - Juergen Koeller
A collection of puzzles: pentominoes, Rubik's cube, tangrams, magic squares, and more. Many include directions for building a physical model of the puzzle, as well as comments on solutions. Other topics include numeric palindromes and building an origami
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- Math in Motion: Origami in the Classroom, K-8 - Barbara Pearl
Workshops and a book which use an interdisciplinary and manipulative-based approach to teaching mathematics, supporting the NCTM Standards and unfolding a positive attitude toward math and learning. Barbara Pearl developed "Math in Motion" while working
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- Math Models - Bathsheba Grossman
Using rapid prototyping to create her pieces, Grossman describes them as "3D meditations": metal sculptures, etched crystals, and prints of Menger sponges, Lorenz attractors, 4-dimensional solids projected into 3-space, and triply periodic minimal surfaces
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- Math Quilts - Rebecca Chaky
A showcase for quilters inspired by mathematical themes: geometry, perspective, topology, irrational numbers, feathered star, fractals, and tessellations and tiling, including Escher. Also a link to the Math Quilts Online Bookstore, a Reference Department,
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- MathsNet: Puzzles - Bryan Dye; MathsNet
A selection of interactive mathematical puzzles of various kinds, including: the latest puzzle; Pairs; Quiz; The DAILY puzzle; The HOURLY puzzle; The MathsWalk puzzle; MathsNet Art; GraphMaze; Numeracy; Curious and interesting numbers; Numbers in words;
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- Maths Posters in the London Underground - Andrew D. Burbanks, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
During World Mathematical Year 2000 (WMY2000), a sequence of posters will be displayed month by month in the trains of the London Underground. The aim of this outreach is to bring maths to life, illustrating the wide applications of modern mathematics
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- Math That Makes You Go Wow - A Multi-Disciplinary Exploration of Non-Orientable Surfaces - Boittin, Callahan, Goldberg, Remes
A Web course intended for inclusion as a short segment in a late middle school or early high school math course and designed to convey the beauty and fascination of such mathematical objects as the sphere, the torus, the Klein bottle, the Mobius band,
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- Maxwell's Demon - Edmund Harriss
Harriss, a mathematician and artist of substitution tilings, tilings with a scaling symmetry like the Penrose Tiling, writes that "the major themes of this blog revolve around mathematics communication and mathematics art." His posts, which date back
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- Möbius at Fermilab - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
Sculptures by Robert R. Wilson, three-dimensional versions of the usual "one-sided" surface, one on the grounds of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, IL, another near an entrance to the Science Center at Harvard University
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- M. C. Escher: (1898-1972) - Brendan DJ Murphy
Links to pages marketing M.C. Escher products, including posters, mugs, and t-shirts.
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- M.C.Escher: Artist or Mathematician? - ThinkQuest 1997
Biographical information on Escher, images from his extensive output, a tessellations tutorial (with illustrations from Escher's notebook), and links to other Escher sites.
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- The Measurers: a Flemish Image of Mathematics in the Sixteenth Century - Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
From a 1995 exhibition centered around an unusual and important painting in the Museum's collection, known simply as 'The Measurers' (Antwerp, late 16th century). The painting depicts a range of practical activities, foremost among them mathematical instrument
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- Meddling in the Affairs of Infinity - Shohdy Nagib
How to use feedback between your video camera and your television set to produce "hypnotizing video effects" related to fractals. Site also available in Russian.
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- The Millennium Sphere - The Cooper Union
Jean Le Mee, Manuel A. Baez, and a team of their Cooper Union students submitted the Millennium Sphere for an international time-capsule competition sponsored by the New York Times Magazine. Watch a Shockwave animation of Ad Quadratum generation that
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- Minimal Snow - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
For a truly cool experience, there's nothing like transforming a 12-foot, 20-ton block of manufactured snow into a giant sculpture. That's the premise underlying the Breckenridge snow sculpture championships in Colorado, held annually in January. This
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- Mirror Curves - Slavik Jablan, Mathematical Institute, Belgrade
Making art by repeating a curve to make a more complicated design, by symmetry/reflection. This paper illustrates Tamil threshold designs, Lunda and Chokwe sand drawings, and the knots/curves of Leonardo da Vinci.
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- Miscellaneous Sketches: Linear Sketch, Mid-Rhombus... - Key Curriculum Press
Sketches: a dynamic display of the equation of a line as you move it around; an illustration of the midpoint figure of a quadrilateral; a tessellation made in the pattern of a Navajo rug; a sketch that draws the regular polygon with given internal angle;
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- Modularity in Art - Slavik Jablan, Mathematical Institute, Belgrade
Jablan uses the word "modularity" to refer to the process of making art by repeating a simple block, tile, or motif to make a more complicated design, by symmetry/reflection and/or tessellation. This site includes a paper on such art and its math, linked
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- Morphing Art (MatheMUSEments!) - Ivars Peterson (Math Muse for Kids)
When you're riding along on your bike or in a car, you sometimes see the word "ONLY" painted on the roadway just before an intersection. The white letters look normal from where you're sitting. But if you were standing beside the "ONLY" instead of riding
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- Mostly Modular Origami - Valerie Vann
Modular Origami is a branch of the art of paperfolding. The earliest modular origami is probably Asian (Japanese, Chinese) in origin. Unlike regular origami, where a figure or sculpture such as a crane, frog or airplane is made from a single sheet of
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- Native American Geometry - Chris Hardaker
A physical, proportional geometry that originates from the simple circle. A growing body of architectural and iconographic evidence suggests this geometry was a relatively common tradition and has been practiced for at least 2000 years. The site is divided
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- NCTM San Diego Sessions on Humanistic Math - Mathematics Education at the Math Forum
A selection of presentations from the 74th Annual NCTM Meeting, April 1996, San Diego, CA.
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- New Geometric Tilings - Adrian Fisher Maze Design
A page that celebrates the beauty of 4-, 5-, 6-, and 7-fold geometric tilings, grouped according to the regular polygons that they fill. Where possible, actual dates and designers are stated. Nearly all these tiling examples are based on sides of the
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