Do Not Erase (eBook)

Mathematicians and Their Chalkboards

Jessica Wynne (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
240 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22282-0 (ISBN)

Infos

A photographic exploration of mathematicians' chalkboards"e;A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns,"e; wrote the British mathematician G. H. Hardy. In Do Not Erase, photographer Jessica Wynne presents remarkable examples of this idea through images of mathematicians' chalkboards. While other fields have replaced chalkboards with whiteboards and digital presentations, mathematicians remain loyal to chalk for puzzling out their ideas and communicating their research. Wynne offers more than one hundred stunning photographs of these chalkboards, gathered from a diverse group of mathematicians around the world. The photographs are accompanied by essays from each mathematician, reflecting on their work and processes. Together, pictures and words provide an illuminating meditation on the unique relationships among mathematics, art, and creativity.The mathematicians featured in this collection comprise exciting new voices alongside established figures, including Sun-Yung Alice Chang, Alain Connes, Misha Gromov, Andre Neves, Kasso Okoudjou, Peter Shor, Christina Sormani, Terence Tao, Claire Voisin, and many others. The companion essays give insights into how the chalkboard serves as a special medium for mathematical expression. The volume also includes an introduction by the author, an afterword by New Yorker writer Alec Wilkinson, and biographical information for each contributor.Do Not Erase is a testament to the myriad ways that mathematicians use their chalkboards to reveal the conceptual and visual beauty of their discipline-shapes, figures, formulas, and conjectures created through imagination, argument, and speculation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.6.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 110 color illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
• Schlagworte: aesthetics of math • Alexei Borodin • Alexei Mailybaev • Algebraic Geometry • algorithm • American Mathematical Society • Amie Wilkinson • Applied mathematics • Art and math • Artur Avila • Astronomer • Audrey Nasar • bassam • Bassam Fayad • Benson Farb • blackboard • blackboards • Blog • Bruno Kahn • Bryna Kra • Calculation • Career • Centre national de la recherche scientifique • Charles Baudelaire • Claire Voisin • Classroom • Collaboration • combinatorics • Complex Analysis • Computation • Configuration space • conjecture • Correspondence principle • counterexample • Diagram (category theory) • Dimension • Dimitri Shlyakhtenko • Dusa McDuff • Dynamical system • Eberhard Hopf • Enrico Bombieri • ergodic theory • estimation • Étienne Ghys • Euclidean space • Explanation • Fashion Institute of Technology • fellow • Fernando Codá Marques • four-dimensional space • Fractal • freedom of speech • General relativity • geometric analysis • Geometry • Gilbert Strang • Govind Menon • Graduate school • Grigory Margulis • Hee Oh, Philip Ording, Enrique Pujals • Hélène Esnault • Helmut Hofer • Hessenberg variety • Homework • Homological Mirror Symmetry • Illustration • impermanence • Inequality (mathematics) • Instance (computer science) • Integer • Iron ore • Isabelle Gallagher • james simons • John Terilla • Kadomtsev–Petviashvili equation • knot theory • Lecture • Leila Schneps • machine learning • Marcelo Viana • Mathematical Physics • Mathematical problem • mathematician • Mathematics • minimal surface • month • Nate Harman • natural language • Noga Alon • Notation • Number Theory • Ofer Gabber • Parameter • periodic point • Peter Shor • Philippe Michel • Philippe Rigollet • Photon • physicist • Physics • Portrait • Probability • Probability Theory • Professor • Project • Pure Mathematics • Quantity • Quantum Computing • random graph • randomness • result • Ricci curvature • Riemann zeta function • Simons • Star polygon • Student • Sun-Yung Alice Chang • symmetry • Symplectic Geometry • Tadashi Tokieda • Technology • Theorem • theoretical physics • Thought • Three-dimensional space (mathematics) • Tool • two-dimensional space • Unit square • Vegetable • Wave Turbulence • Whiteboard • Whitney Museum of American Art • Wilfrid Gangbo • Willmore conjecture • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22282-7 / 0691222827
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22282-0 / 9780691222820