Yes, inspiring to hear about an artist willing to go to such great lengths in search of mathematical truth. The other thing to mention is his work on "schneckenlinie". --Brad On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:27 AM James Buddenhagen <jbuddenh@gmail.com> wrote:
double oops!!!
Here is the link to history of life of Albrecht Dürer
http://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Durer.html
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:25 AM James Buddenhagen <jbuddenh@gmail.com> wrote:
oops -- somehow I had a link to an Andy Goldsworthy spiral in my previous email. Well it was a nice spiral of white rocks, at least on topic -- mathematics in art.
It was supposed to be a link to history of the artist Albrecht Dürer who was quite interested in mathematics. The correct link for that is: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49825435268_652f6d12a3_b.jpg
James
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:16 AM James Buddenhagen <jbuddenh@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 5:48 AM Brad Klee <bradklee@gmail.com> wrote:
For example:
https://www.zirckelvndrichtscheyt.com/e-n-g-l-i-s-h-1/geometricized-heads/
Yes, Albrecht Dürer was very interested in mathematics. See here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jbuddenh/31131350214 for more history about this.
His famous image: Melencolia I, shows (among lots of other things) a polyhedron which appears to be a truncated rhombohedron (some say a truncated cube). See it here: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49825435268_652f6d12a3_b.jpg
James
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