"Beyond all of this, I do believe mathematics is a new form of art. It is loaded with meaning. It's not just an aesthetic or a form of abstract painting. It's loaded with poetry."
"For a man who has long worked in a visual medium—"with images, with inner landscapes"—his approach to math has been about visualization, he said. He brought up crystallography and meteorology, as well as the mysteries of the Ulam spiral, a visual pattern revealed when prime numbers are plotted on a spiral grid of integers."
"The evening hosted tap dancing classes and textile workshops, talks by novelist Michael Cunningham on mysticism and by artist Molly Crabapple on generative A.I., and concerts by Marcus G. Miller and Lőrinc Barabás, aimed to reveal how mathematics undergirds fields from architecture and poetry to technology and art."
The Brooklyn Public Library hosted an overnight Pi Day festival celebrating mathematics and its interconnections across multiple disciplines. The event featured tap dancing, textile workshops, talks by novelist Michael Cunningham and artist Molly Crabapple, and musical performances. Filmmaker Werner Herzog delivered the keynote address titled "Mathematics and the Sublime," discussing geometry, data visualizations, the golden ratio, and numerology. Herzog emphasized that mathematics constitutes a new form of art laden with meaning and poetry rather than mere abstraction. He highlighted visualization approaches to mathematics, referencing crystallography, meteorology, fractals, and the Ulam spiral. Herzog expressed particular admiration for Euler's Identity, describing it as mathematics' most beautiful equation linking five fundamental constants.
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