Math and Art: Lars's guide to the sources.

This page is really old. I doubt if any of the links work anymore. Who knows.

Update: fixed some links to point to wayback machine copies.

Wouldn't be complete without a link back to my home page.

Or the page with a few ripped off pictures.

new

An Art and Music page.

http://u2.lvcm.com/esullivan/webquest.html [archive.org]

http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/math-art-arch.shtml

http://mtcs.truman.edu/~thammond/history/Art.html

http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/. Dartmouth's Mathematics Across the Curriculum page.

Part of MATC: an extensive bibliography.

MATC

Mathematical Fiction

Math in Fiction page.

Another Math/Lit page [archive.org] (just a list with reviews, like the others).

Ivars Petersen has a new book called Fragments of Infinity which looks good. I've only browsed through it at Barnes and Noble so I can't really say how great it is. (The link is to Amazon.com so if you don't like them don't click).

Some pictures. I am unaware of any legal restrictions accompanying these pictures (I think the escher pictures are illegal to provide access to, but I'm not sure. This is educational, right?)

Internet Resources

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Tilings Doris Schattschneider's Bibliography of Tesselations Self explanatory. There are a zillion web pages, each accompanied by its own book, about tilings. Tiling: a Java program for exploring plane tilings HERE Tessellation Resources

Origami Helena's Origami Index Page The Geometry Junkyard: Origami The Geometry Junkyard also has lots of good stuff. Joseph Wu's Origami Page BOS Home Page http://www.ifold.org/ Origami Mathematics Page Origami & Math

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Organizations

publish journals. hold conferences. none of the conference books are in the library. they might be interesting. kind of hard to tell what's going on with this whole bizness without them.

ISAMA Homepage

The International Society for the Arts, Mathematics, and Architecture. Apparently ISAMA only has conferences and the like, and doesn't actually do anything but put pictures of their conferences on the web for their members to look at. Does have links to sites devoted to related topics, e.g. tilings.

ISAMA conferences

isama 00

isama 99

isama 98

VisMath

VisMath DESCRIPTION

Bridges

Bridges DESCRIPTION

Mosaic 2000

Mosaic 2000 DESCRIPTION

Ylem; Artists using science and technology

Interesting organization. Publishes newsletter on web (see link on page). Devoted to bringing artists with technological interests together. The issue of their newsletter devoted to fractals has, on the first page, many interesting quotations regarding the status of fractals as art.

Leonardo On-Line: Art, Science and Technology

Web site of Leonardo, the journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology. The Visual Mind and Visual Art, Mathematics & Computers are collections of articles from these magazines (and a few other sources).

Nexus Network Journal Homepage

Devoted to Architecture and Mathematics. Companion Journal to the conference series "Nexus: The Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics".

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People

Robert Krawczyk

Spirolaterals stuff.

Nat Friedman

Director of ISAMA.

Mathematics in Architecture

Personal statement of sorts for Stephen R. Wassell, professor of mathematical sciences at sweet briar college. Refers to Kappraff (below), GEB, Leonardo, Nexus. Appears to be defunct.

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Misc.

Geometry.Net

GRAPE Minimal Surface Library

GRAPE is a visualization package beyond my abilities. However, the above link has a slew of pictures of minimal surfaces. Since some of the sculptures in the articles below are carvings of minimal surfaces.