Contemporary Belgian artist Alain Biltereyst works on abstract paintings characterized by bold patterns and colors. Most of the time, the shapes he … [Read more...]
H. Wieners and P. Treutleins’ Catalogue of Mathematical Models (19th Century)
After last week's post on Man Ray's photographs of equation models from the Institut PoincarĂ© in Paris, here are four illustrations (plus the cover) … [Read more...]
Man Ray, Mathematical Objects (1934-36)
The collection of 19th-century three-dimensional models of algebraic and differential equations at the Institut Henri PoincarĂ© in Paris made a great … [Read more...]
The Hidden Territory: USGS’s 1950’s to 1970’s Isometric Geological Diagrams
The online archive of the United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey is a valuable resource filled with detailed three-dimensional … [Read more...]