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May 6, 2006
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Quilting Pi The intriguing, enigmatic number pi, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, conjures up vivid patterns that artist and mathematician John Sims translates to quilts.   |
Science News
November 4, 2000
Ivars Peterson |
Mathematical Art on Display The term "mathematical art" usually conjures up just one name---that of Dutch graphic artist M. C. Escher. But the realm of mathematical art is far wider and more diverse than most people realize... |
Science News
November 18, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Form Plus Function Numbers, lines, squares, and shadows add up to an intriguing set of artworks rooted in mathematical concepts. |
Science News
December 8, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
The Math Hatter and More Looking for a cool gift for someone mathematically inclined? An unusual, conversation-generating token of appreciation? The World Wide Web offers a number of intriguing possibilities -- if you know where to stop and shop... |
Chemistry World
September 2011 |
Column: The crucible In the art world, chemistry continues to be a rich stimulus to the imagination, says Philip Ball |
AskMen.com
August 8, 2006
Ryan Weatherill |
Keep Up In A Contemporary Art Conversation Art is one of the more interesting status symbols around. Theoretically, it's made by poor individuals yearning to express themselves, and purchased by wealthy individuals. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2008
David E. Adler |
For Art's Sake The New York City art auctions in May and June put to rest the idea that gloom in financial markets was spreading into the art market -- at least, not at the very upper end |
Science News
May 27, 2000
Ivars Peterson |
Math Trails in Ottawa ...math teacher Ron Lancaster of Hamilton, Ontario, has been creating "math trails" for both students and teachers as a way to demonstrate that mathematics can be found anywhere and everywhere... |
Science News
April 5, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Fractured Granite and Fractal Prints A fractured edge of granite tends to show the same degree of roughness at different magnifications. Indeed, nature features many irregular shapes that are self-similar -- that repeat themselves on different scales within the same object. |
Science News
July 1, 2006 |
Science Safari: Mathematical Imagery This set of web pages features albums of math-inspired and mathematically-generated artworks. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2011
Jenny Sherman |
Art is an Asset More boutique firms that provide wealth managers with financially based art market analysis are cropping up, and a clutch of new art-focused investment funds are launching. |
Entrepreneur
May 2010
Rosalind Resnick |
Fine Art of Investment When it comes to sinking your money into the art market, caution is critical. |
Science News
December 24, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
A Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities New technologies have made it possible to create 3D models of geometric shapes, magically transforming equations into elegant, intriguing miniatures. |
Salon.com
September 5, 2002
David Appell |
Math = beauty + truth / (really hard) Explaining what the winners of the world's top awards in mathematics actually do isn't as easy as adding 2+2. But we'll give it a try. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2015
Casad et al. |
Enduring Access to Rich Media Content: Understanding Use and Usability Requirements Through an NEH-funded initiative, Cornell University Library is creating a technical, curatorial, and managerial framework for preserving access to complex born-digital new media objects. |
TIME Asia
August 16, 2010
Christopher Dewolf |
Industrial Bloom Nearly 50,000 people visited the Hong Kong International Art Fair, a 65% jump in attendance over last year. It's another step up for the aspiring capital of Asia's art market, a city where auction houses sold $502 million in art last year alone. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 17, 2010
Patricia Deubel |
Web 2.0 in Instruction: Adding Spice to Math Education Mathematics lags behind other subjects in class-centered web 2.0 communities for children, and an even larger lag in informal, recreational communities. |
Science News
January 4, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Sound-Byte Math Music Swedish composer Daniel Cummerow has created mathematical sound bytes belonging to a category known as algorithmic music. Each musical fragment is determined by a mathematical recipe -- a formula that links digits with musical notes and their duration... |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 2, 2010
Sean Silverthorne |
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market The market for modern Indian art was created in three broad steps: redefinition of the category, creation of valuation metrics, and broad acceptance and understanding of the category. |
Financial Advisor
May 2012
Thomas M. Kostigen |
Art Is For The Living Leaving art to charity helps avoid big tax payments to the the IRS. |
AskMen.com
Nick Kennedy |
Investing In The Art Exchange "If you can quickly list more titles produced by Van Halen than Van Gogh, then you probably don't have the background to be a successful art collector." |
BusinessWeek
July 22, 2010
Lindsey Pollock |
The Next Big Things at the Greater New York Art Show The show, at P.S. 1, has long been a harbinger of modern art trends. Tauba Auerbach and Alex Hubbard are among its next anticipated stars. |
Science News
March 4, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
The Limits of Mathematics No matter what the system of axioms or rules is, there will always be some assertion that can be neither proved nor invalidated within the system. |
Chemistry World
July 1, 2014
Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Chemistry and art We often write about art-related chemistry, so this issue gives us an opportunity to analyze some of these stories in a bit more depth. |
Information Today
November 30, 2009 |
EBSCO Introduces Art & Architecture Databases These new art and architecture resources include cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 620 academic journals, magazines, and trade publications as well as more than 140 books. |
Chemistry World
June 14, 2012
Laura Howes |
Uranium dating fingers Neanderthals as artists Researchers used U-Th ratios to date calcite deposits that overlaid the Paleolithic artwork to calculate a minimum age of the cave paintings. |
Information Today
November 18, 2014 |
The Getty Foundation Houses Free, Online Catalogs The OSCI (Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative) is composed of digital publications from eight institutions, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Tate, and the Walker Art Center. |
Science News
November 29, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
The Cow in the Classroom There is a difference between mathematical exercises disguised as episodes of everyday life and real mathematics applied in the real world. It's a distinction that's not always apparent in the mathematics classroom. |
TIME Asia
October 18, 2010
Harrell & Perraudin |
Culturally Invested In the decade before the financial meltdown, curators like Alistair Hicks used some of the banks' huge profits to make those institutions the world's largest holders of contemporary art. |
