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The Mutual Inspiration of Art and Mathematics
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Mathematics is art, and art is mathematics. So claim the father-son pair of Erik and Martin Demaine of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. "Our math and our art have blended together so much we can't tell them apart anymore," Martin Demaine says.
The Demaines were among a number of artist-mathematicians whose work appeared in the Mathematical Art Exhibition at the Joint Mathematics Meetings held in San Francisco in January.
Their sources of inspiration ranged from debugging computer code, to the mathematical principles underlying economics, to the folds of origami. But all of the creators agree that a conversation between math and art can inform both disciplines.
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