In these very uncertain times, I find it comforting to look at something eternal and classical. It’s even better if this is an object whose model I can construct. After months of quarantine, I finally hit upon the perfect pandemic craft object: the Campanus’ Sphere. This beautiful polyhedral frame was frequently portrayed during the Rennaissance…
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For the past several months, our lives have been essentially ruled by a virus. As a result, virology is a branch of science that has really come to the forefront as of late. After all, the saying “hold your friends closer” has never been more true than now. I was, therefore, very excited when I…
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I recently participated in my first collaborative art project with Bjoern Muetzel, Ph.D. We had so much fun working together and were so encouraged by the warm reception of our work at the ICERM Illustrative Mathematics program, that we decided to collaborate on another piece to submit to the Joint Mathematics Meetings in 2020. We…
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Several months ago, Bjoern Muetzel, Ph.D., had the idea to glue plastic mirrors to the inside faces of a dodecahedron made of Geometiles. Of course, one of the faces would be left out so the viewer could appreciate the psychedelic landscape inside. Bjoern took this object for a test run at the National Math Festival…
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