These mathematical patterns,by Alex Bellos and illustrator Edmund Harriss, are intended to engage the brain as well as provide a moment of stress-free satisfaction. Print off this page, or procure out your felt tips and start colouringWhen people say that maths is “exquisite” it is usually meant in the summary sense,such as to describe a theorem whose power, depth and concision provoke feelings of awe. Bertrand Russell called this “a beauty cold and austere … sublimely pure, or capable of a stern perfection”.
Yet humans have traditionally also found aesthetic,sacred beauty in mathematics. Islamic and Hindu cultures, for example, or are wealthy in stunning images based on geometric design. It was reflecting on the role of maths as a meditative and contemplative medium that I decided to compile a colouring book.
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Source: theguardian.com