The mathematician's corner
From: notes from postgraduate research student SN who was working on aspects of elliptic curves, to: visual art.
Her blackboard – watercolour, blackboard paint and chalk on hand-made paper, 22 by 30 inches (left);
Mathematical mind – acrylic on paper, A3 (right);
Polygonal torus/elliptic curve – acrylic on paper, 3D (centre).
Mathematical mind – acrylic on paper, A3 (right);
Polygonal torus/elliptic curve – acrylic on paper, 3D (centre).
I met SN soon after the project started and although she felt that she did not have time to actively collaborate, she liked the idea of the project and kindly sent me some of her notes to use as material in lieu. This was a helpful resource and I made three artworks from these notes that were displayed in a corner the photo of which is above.
I got my Masters degree from Berkeley in 1978; my specialist topic was complex manifolds, particularly tori. So when SN responded to the call and we met a few times, I had a sense of unfinished business with my own mathematical studies as the connections between tori and elliptic curves is something I glimpse on the horizon of my understanding but have not yet accommodated into my mathematical thinking. I would not claim to have understood SN's mathematical work, but the diagrams and images in her notes were seeds for two of the at works shown above, specifically:
I got my Masters degree from Berkeley in 1978; my specialist topic was complex manifolds, particularly tori. So when SN responded to the call and we met a few times, I had a sense of unfinished business with my own mathematical studies as the connections between tori and elliptic curves is something I glimpse on the horizon of my understanding but have not yet accommodated into my mathematical thinking. I would not claim to have understood SN's mathematical work, but the diagrams and images in her notes were seeds for two of the at works shown above, specifically:
Onward to the Trees