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This week the Mathematical Association of America is encouraging math enthusiasts to share their love of the subject using the hashtag #loveyourmath. Today’s prompt was to “post an image of your favorite math art (and artist), or share something you created, or your children created.” I started sharing some of my math+art posts on Twitter, but I quickly got overwhelmed. I've written about so many (but still somehow not enough) things at the intersection of math and art! So here's a roundup of my posts about mathematics, art, and the beautiful connections between them.
Bridging the Gap between Math and Art
Sculpture and 3D printing
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Counterexamples in Origami Nothing is More Fun than a Hypercube of Monkeys The Revolution Will Be 3D Printed The Creativity of Approximation Beat the Heat with Cool Mathematical Art Highly Unlikely Triangles and Other Beaded Mathematics When Life Hands You Lemons, Make Fibonacci Lemonade Straws Thingys and Other Mathematical Sculptures In Praise of People Who Tell Us How to Play with New Toys
Photos/Paintings/Drawings
The Slowest Way to Draw a Lute MoMA to MoMath: A Mathematician’s Picks for Art in New York City A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Topologist’s Sine Curve A Tasty Geometric Morsel Every Day When the Mona Lisa is NP-Hard Math that Moves Everything Looks Better in the Hyperbolic Plane Impossible Wallpaper and Mystery Curves: Exploring Symmetry in Mathematics and Art Math Photo: Projection Geometry and the Imagination A Few of My Favorite Spaces: Space-Filling Curves How to Look at Art: A Mathematician’s Perspective 2, 4, 6, 8, It’s Almost Time to Tessellate Look Around You: Spherical Videos and Möbius Transformations
Fiber arts
A Cuddly, Crocheted Klein Quartic Curve Knotted Needles Make Knitted Knots The Stunning Symbiosis between Math and Knitting A Mathematical Yarn: How to Stitch a Hyperbolic Pseudosphere Back Algorithmic Knitting on Kickstarter How to Sew Like a Mathematician What to Wear in the Ninth Dimension
Music
The Saddest Thing I Know about the Integers Seeing Music: What Does the Missing Fundamental Look Like? Your Telephone Is Lying to You about Sounds A Belated Apology to Mozart and Modular Arithmetic Could You Tune Every Note on a Piano to a Middle C? Modular Arithmetic at the Music Stand Topology at the Tonys The Mathematical Hamilton Parody You Never Knew You Needed
The written word
Setting Mathematics in Verse
The Poetry of Calculus (The Calculus of Poetry?)
What T. S. Eliot Told Me about the Chain Rule
Measure Yourself by the Standard of the Capybara
In Praise of Fractals and Poetry
Quiz: Can You Tell Mathematics from Poetry?
The Cubic Equation as Poetry
You Were on the Moon: Astropoetry from Tychogirl
How to Celebrate Math Poetry Month
What Is the Funniest Number? (On why Joseph Heller’s landmark novel is called Catch-22 and not Catch-18, Catch-14, or Catch-Champernowne’s Constant)
Has Anyone Ever Flipped Heads 76 Times in a Row? (An analysis of some probability in the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead)
Have you made or seen any mathematical art recently?
