Tag: Art Space

Purely Aesthetic

G. H. Hardy in A Mathematician's Apology — What ‘purely aesthetic’ qualities can we distinguish in such theorems as Euclid’s or Pythagoras’s? I will not risk more than a…

Expanding the Spielraum

A short poem by several authors: "The role of the 16 singular points on the Kummer surface is now played by the 64 singular points on the Kummer…

Kummer Varieties

The Dream of the Expanded Field continues… From Klein's 1893 Lectures on Mathematics — "The varieties introduced by Wirtinger may be called Kummer varieties…." — E. Spanier, 1956 From…

Class of 64

A NY Times  researcher from this morning’s previous post tweeted last fall about art forgery and China. Related material — Art Cube. Illustration from December 25, 2013.

Rotating the Facts

"She never looked up while her mind rotated the facts, trying to see them from all sides, trying to piece them together into theory. All she could think was…