Animations = beautiful mathematics
A collaboration between a mathematician and an
artist-geometer has resulted in some of the most mathematically sophisticated
and aesthetically gripping animations ever seen in the field.
A collaboration between a mathematician and an
artist-geometer has resulted in some of the most mathematically sophisticated
and aesthetically gripping animations ever seen in the field. Their visualizations of cutting-edge research in
dynamical systems theory not only provide a dramatic new way of visiting
mathematical worlds once seen only in the mind’s eye, but also point to a
new era for the use of computer graphics in communicating and carrying out
mathematical research.
The two collaborators are Etienne Ghys, a mathematician at the Ecole Normale Sup´rieure in Lyon, France, and Jos Leys, a Belgian graphic artist and engineer with strong mathematical interests. They have written an online animated exposition of an important new theorem Ghys has proved in dynamical systems theory.
Beautiful work. No surprise that the most ordered science can produce such images.
The two collaborators are Etienne Ghys, a mathematician at the Ecole Normale Sup´rieure in Lyon, France, and Jos Leys, a Belgian graphic artist and engineer with strong mathematical interests. They have written an online animated exposition of an important new theorem Ghys has proved in dynamical systems theory.
Beautiful work. No surprise that the most ordered science can produce such images.
Posted: Mon - November 13, 2006 at 06:38 AM