artist biographies and websites

maa Golden section 2021 (scroll down to see all six artists)

Dan Bach (art space organizer) www.dansmath.com

I'm a former teacher at Diablo Valley College. I used Mathematica for 25 years in the classroom, teacher workshops, and conference talks. Students convinced me long ago that my nice-looking calculus graphs could qualify on their own as art.

Math has been perceived by many as separate from art, but as creators and viewers of math art, we enjoy using both halves of our brains! After a 36-year teaching career, I am now a 3D math artist and interactive book author, trying to bring the joy of mathematics to an unsuspecting audience.

Frank Farris math.scu.edu/~ffarris

Inspired by joining the Illustrating Mathematics semester at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), I am interested in promoting the role of mathematical art in the broader community. Mathematical artists do more than reach out to non-mathematicians. We make important contributions to mathematical research, exposition, and education. Recent work involves creating shapes invariant under various group actions using Grasshopper in Rhino. The shapes are then staged in scenes with texture mapping and ray tracing, or printed as sculptures.

Phil webster www.philwebsterdesign.com <== (right-click)

I’ve had a life long love affair with geometry, and my sweet spot is taking ancient geometric traditions – particularly, in recent years, Islamic geometric patterns – and combining them with modern mathematical concepts like fractals and polyhedra to create unique, modern art and décor pieces for the modern home. I love making art that captures ancient traditions with a modern twist, and that brings order, beauty, and peace into peoples’ private spaces.

Aminur Rahman faculty.washington.edu/arahman2

I am an applied mathematician, and I often apply the techniques of dynamical systems analysis in my work. My research involves formulating mechanistic models that agree with real world observations and analyzing them via rigorous mathematics. These models sometimes produce beautiful figures especially when they come from the field of Dynamical Systems.

Liang Zhao www.pywonderland.com <== (right-click)

Former math Ph.D candidate and now a software engineer in mainland China. Interested in probability theory, representation theory and combinatorics. I like making nice math images with code, especially some non-trivial math visualized. See my project at: https://github.com/neozhaoliang/pywonderland

Carlo h. sequin. people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~sequin

I am interested in mathematical knots as aesthetic, constructivist sculptures. Prime knots cannot exhibit mirror symmetry, nor can they assume any of the higher-order symmetries of the regular or semi-regular polyhedra. Still, it is possible to make tubular sculptures based on such knots that overall display the structure of some Platonic or Archimedean solid. My approach is to run the knot strand along all the edges of such a polyhedron, forming a closed Eulerian circuit. This can readily be done on polyhedra where all the vertices are of even valence, such as the octahedron or the cuboctahedron; here I focus on the latter geometry. First, I try to compose an Euler circuit that exhibits as much symmetry as possible. Then the knot strand must be deformed slightly near the vertices to avoid any direct strand intersections. These deformations, necessary to obtain a true knot, unfortunately will further reduce the overall symmetry. My three art submissions explore this trade-off.