Art in the life of mathematicians

Szemeredi, Anna Kepes, 1945- (editor.).

Summary: "Why are mathematicians drawn to art? How do they perceive it? What motivates them to pursue excellence in music or painting? Do they view their art as a conveyance for their mathematics or an escape from it? What are the similarities between mathematical talent and creativity and their artistic equivalents? What are the differences? Can a theatrical play or a visual image capture the beauty and excitement of mathematics? Some of the world's top mathematicians are also accomplished artists: musicians, photographers, painters, dancers, writers, filmmakers. In this volume, they share some of their work and reflect on the roles that mathematics and art have played in their lives. They write about creativity, communication, making connections, negotiating successes and failures, and navigating the vastly different professional worlds of art and mathematics."--Back cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9781470419561 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 1470419564 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xii, 282 pages : illustrations (some color) : 27 cm
Publisher: Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society, [2015]
Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction / Assaf Naor and AnnMarie Perl -- The art of mathematics / Michael Atiyah -- Opera and music-a mathematician's view / Béla Bollobás -- The fragility of beauty in mathematics and in art / Enrico Bombieri and Sarah Jones Nelson -- Mathematics, love, and tattoos / Edward Frenkel -- Music-a life not chosen / Timothy Gowers -- Writing and performing mathematics as metaphor / Andrew Granville, Jennifer Granville, and Michael Spencer -- Photography / Izabella Łaba -- Painting and mathematics / Peter Lax -- Mathematics, art, civilization / Yuri I. Manin -- De novo artistic activity, origins of logograms, and mathematical intuition / Yuri I. Manin -- A drifter of dadaist persuasion / Matilde Marcolli -- Inside out, outside in (mathematics on a single snapshot) / Jaroslav Nešetřil and Miroslav Petřiček -- Conversation with Klaus Roth / Anna Kepes Szemerédi -- Salsa and mathematics / Balázs Szegedy -- Thoughts on art and mathematics / Balázs Szegedy -- Mathematics and art / Cédric Villani -- Into the woods / Vladimir Voevodsky.