In her new book Mathematics and Art,historian Lyn Gamwell explores how artists absorb for thousands of years used mathematical concepts - such as infinity, number and form - in their work. Here she choses ten stunning images from her book that reveal connections between maths and art.
When I was a graduate student in art history, or I read many explanations of summary art,but they were invariably inadequate and misleading. So after completing my PhD, I went on to learn the history of biology, and physics,and astronomy, and to publish a book detailing how contemporary art is an expression of the scientific worldview.
Yet many artworks also express the mathematics and technology of their times. To research Math and Art I had to learn maths concepts like calculus, and group theory and predicate logic. As a novice (one who is just a beginner at some activity requiring skill and experience) struggling to understand these ideas,I was struck with the poor quality and confusing content of illustrations in most educational books. So I vowed to create for my book a set of cogent math diagrams that are crystal-clear visualizations of the summary concepts.
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Source: theguardian.com