For Nelson Saiers, a great work of art can be one of the most mind-bending and elegant of mathematical equations. In fact, for this math whiz-turned Wall Street trader-turned full-time artist, math ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, humbling the United ...

Harriet Stone Evans is a fine artist who mixes two disciplines together, art and mathematics, to create her unique style. Described as a self-taught artist, Evans says art has always been a part of ...

Math gets a bad rap in the creative community. To be fair, devotees of facts and figures return the compliment. They push to make S.T.E.M. (science, technology engineering and math) the heart of ...

George Hart, a sculptor and applied mathematician who uses geometric principles to create artwork, holding one of his pieces. Hart, who created a sculpture for Franklin College in 2020, will give a ...

Charlie Bessman, of Pleasantville, is either an artistic mathematician or a mathematical artist. A math teacher by trade, he sees whimsy and exploration in the numbers. He's also an artist, using a ...

As a mathematician, I expect that people at parties will tell me that they're no good at math. I'm used to my fellow professors confessing their ignorance of my subject. I understand that many of my ...

Pi usually looks like this: 3.14159265359. But in the hands of artist John Sims, it looks like something you could curl up under on a cold night. Sims has created “Square Roots: A Quilted Manifesto,” ...

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