mathematics and art
Peter Markowich is a mathematician who likes to take pictures. At first his two interests seemed completely separate to him, but then he realised that behind every picture there is a mathematical story to tell. Plus went to see him to find out more, and ended up with a pictorial introduction to partial differential equations.
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Exhibition design is not a career that the mathematically inclined tend to think about, let alone pursue. Barry Phipps is the first interdisciplinary fellow with the Kettle's Yard gallery in Cambridge. His remit is to develop projects of an interdisciplinary nature — "to find the common ground between things." Whilst most people think that art and science are two completely separate
non-overlapping areas of human endeavour, Phipps does not see it this way.
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Mathematicians and artists mingle in London
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Van Gogh paintings mimic the physics that governs turbulence
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Two designers tell us how they took the long way round to design, and how the maths and science they took in on the way helps them with their work today.
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Carla Farsi is both an artist and a mathematician, who declared 2005 her Special Year for art and maths. Find out what she got up to, and what it's like being a part of both worlds.
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Fractal geometry can identify Jackson Pollock's paintings
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