Michael Schultheis

http://www.michaelschultheis.com

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Gold Sail of Menelaus

"As humans, we have a fascinating capacity to visualize mathematics. Our analytical concepts can be visualized, written down in notation, and then shared as a logical and visual language for others. These creative issues from our minds are analytical expressions, and the visual process of rendering them is analytical expressionism. This is the world I explore while painting." - Michael Schultheis


Likening his canvas to a chalkboard, Michael Schultheis creates paintings consisting of layers of mathematical notations and drawings that describe the form and motion of three-dimensional geometric shapes.

Conics of Apollonius

Toriods

Harmonic Oscillations

Harmonic Quadrants

Parabolic Symmetries

Conic Symmetries

Cycloids

Here's Looking at Euclid

I found out about this book on an in flight magazine.

Radio Lab Numbers

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2009/10/09

Radio Lab featured a story on mathematician Paul Erdos.  He was a lonely child who taught himself math. Like Newton, he came up with his work in solitude.  Newton had a wonderful year, Annus Mirabilis.  in 1666, he worked on his theories alone away from Cambridge because it was evacuated due to the plague.

Is God a Mathematician?

The earth travels some 900 miles per hour.

'The world doesn't stand still.  Most things around us are either in motion or continuously changing.  Even the seemingly firm Earth underneath our feet are in fact spinning around its axis, revolving around the Sun, and traveling (together with the Sun) around the center of our Milky Way galaxy.  The air we breathe is composed of trillions of molecules that move ceaselessly and randomly.' p. 119.

Some notes from his interview on Speaking of Faith.
Imagenary number is invented but it became to describe physical phenomina.

Roger Penrose  physical world conscious mind was able to reach math.  Then math describe back to physical world.

Symetry bi lateral symetry math symetry under translation.  music music repeats itself.  describes something and it does not change.  madam i'm adam.  symetry back to front.   group theory describes all of these symetries.