#mathematics and art

[careful-disorder]

The Pantocrator, Bible of St. Louis

"A strand of art from Ancient Greece onwards sees God as the geometer of the world, and the world's geometry therefore as sacred." Sacred geometry - Mathematics and art

[careful-disorder]

"My belief is that mathematically harmonious shapes, executed precisely, are filled with emotional quality, and that they represent the perfect balance between feeling and intellect." László Moholy-Nagy

László Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian, 1895-1946), Konstruktion B VI, 1922. Oil on canvas, 74.5 x 44.5 cm.

[bysance]

Prime Number Geometry

To celebrate the publishing of my last year’s project on Prime Numbers, I created an exhibit of your favorite artworks in their actual size. You are welcome to check the book on GooglePlay, your Apple IBook – Prime Number Geometry – or visit the gallery @visit.virtualartgallery.com/primenumbers  

[nolinno-art]

I've developed mathematics for a non-human mind, for my comic "The book written by tiny paws"

Sapient distant descendants of rats, known as packers, living on Earth millions of years after the extinction of humans, began to develop mathematics using cognitive mechanisms never intended for such tasks. Due to an evolutionary quirk, multiplication came more naturally to them than addition, and their mathematics reflects this.

Packers write numbers as shapes, with each number having a corresponding number of corners.

And they write large numbers as nested shapes. The number inside is multiplied by the number outside.

Examples of some numbers:

Packers haven't invented 0 yet. They haven't even invented 1! In fact, they don’t need the concept of "one" much in their system. There's no need to say "I ate one fish" when they can simply say "I ate fish".

Packers can't yet write large prime numbers, like 101 or 10,501, because they would have to draw a huge shape to represent them! Even writing 17 or 19 would be quite difficult if they only used convex shapes.

So packers use non-convex shapes too!

Many years later, some packer noticed that large prime numbers look suspiciously symmetric.

So this packer improved the notation system and made it clearer.

Later, another packer simplified this system even more, deciding that there was no point in writing the same shapes twice.

This packer was the first in their culture to declare that "a dot isolated from a number" should also be considered a number. The packer called this dot "the wonderful number that's less than two".

Many years later, another packer made an important innovation: the "dot isolation" could be repeated multiple times as long as the result remained odd. When the result became even, it could undergo a "two isolation" (division by two). The final result will be a series of dots and twos.

This invention led to the creation of a binary system based on one and two, which had a significant impact on the technological advancement of packers.

The comic "the book written by tiny paws" talks about all of this in more detail. There will be mistakes, debates, the invention of rational, irrational, multivariate numbers, and some other stuff. Some stuff will be very much like human math, and some will be different. After all, math is still math, only the point of view has changed.

[szimmetria-airtemmizs]

Now with rotations.

I made a gif not long ago (see below). Many of you expressed that it was "deeply uncomfortable" and "upsetting". I hope this new one will calm your feelings.

[dreams-of-soft-rain]

kirby reads hatcher!

[hinge]

Hinge presents an anthology of love stories almost never told. Read more on https://no-ordinary-love.co

[miamaimania]

Transcending the Ordinary: Lin Yung Cheng's Geometric Artwork Reimagines Mathematical Concepts

[lucidloving]

Joshua Moritz, 'Is There a God-Shaped Hole at the Heart of Mathematics?' // Bluepoch Games, Reverse 1999 // Li C. Tien, "Right Triangle" // Proclus Diadochus // @lothmoth // Lisa Rosenberg, "Introduction to Methods of Mathematical Physics" // Wassily Kadinsky, watercolour abstract // Albert Einstein // see 4

[haeoflii]

I drew three different doodles abt how I feel before my exam, after the first week and the end of my exam💔 (also persona reveal!!!!!!)

I don't think my hair could ever recover from such a loss 😭😭

[elizabugz]

[siph-by-induction]

hi do you guys like my little jellyfish? i made it using maths

i'm now wondering if there is a way of drawing all of the tentacles as one function? (they're little arcsins translated to the right or left) But then again I like them having a rainbow so maybe it's better them all being listed individually.

(Also I would like to work out how to get that sine wave to line up more nicely with the edges of the bell. And align the tentacles more precisely. Consider this a WIP)

[garbagechocolate]

What is the center and radius of the circle indicated by the equation?

(x−2)2+y2=36

-Cousin Throkmorton Anon

[oncanvas]

Sky and Water I, M. C. Escher, 1938

Woodcut on paper 43.9 x 43.9 cm (17 ¼ x 17 ¼ in.)

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[szimmetria-airtemmizs]

Balance

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