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Math on Display: Visualizations of mathematics create remarkable artwork
Posted on February 21st, 2008 by Kaps
Mathematicians often rhapsodize about the austere elegance of a well-wrought proof. But math also has a simpler sort of beauty that is perhaps easier to appreciate: It can be used to create objects that are just plain pretty—and fascinating to boot.
That beauty was richly on display at an exhibition of mathematical art at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego in January, where more than 40 artists showed their creations.
article: http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080216/mathtrek.asp
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