Crochet Coral Reef

Margaret Wertheim talk

Last week I was lucky enough to attend a talk by Margaret Wertheim, in the art department at Pomona College. For those who don’t know her, Margaret is a science writer who has been engaged with the Crochet Coral Reef  mathematical art project for over 17 years, along with her sister, artist Christine Wertheim. In

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MathArtBlog is back! Dragonflies!!!

My last post was back in December of 2019, just as I was leaving the Institute for Computational and Experimental Mathematics in Province, RI. Unless you’ve been in a multi-year hibernation, you’ll note that this was just a few months before the pandemic disrupted everything, which is part of the reason this blog went on

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Illustrating Mathematics at ICERM

I’m writing this while I wait for my plane home from Providence, RI. Yesterday was the last day of a semester long program at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Mathematics (ICERM) on the topic of “Illustrating Mathematics.” I was fortunate enough to be one of the organizers of this program, although I could only

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