On a Higher Plane: Mathematics + Art

Arts + Science Reading Group: 18/06/20Clare Moriarty

PresenterPresentation NotesOliver Byrne and Eleanor Rugg Byrne:Image of Eleanor Rugg Byrne (on Byrneore coin) made available by Dave Baldwin (George H Lovett Gallery).

PresenterPresentation NotesTitle page and sample page from Byrne’s The Elements of Euclid’ (1847), printed by William Pickering, with illustrations by Byrne and elaborate engraved first letters by celebrated book-artist Mary Byfield.

PresenterPresentation NotesPythagorean Theorem, from Byrne’s Elements of Euclid.

PresenterPresentation NotesNotes on mathematical abstraction and the use of colour to better suggest it in the Introduction to Byrne’s Elements of Euclid

Byrne

Mondrian

Malevich

PresenterPresentation NotesGeometric art from Mondrian (neo-plasticism) and Malevich (suprematism) and Byrne’s illustrations (which, though he didn’t want them to be considered as art, are of great interest to artists and art historians).

PresenterPresentation NotesAfrican Fractals in design and civil planning. Images reproduced with permission from Professor Ron Eglash. Learn more about his work here: https://stamps.umich.edu/people/detail/ron_eglash

Thanks also to Dr Keisha Taylor (TCD) for alerting me to these examples.

PresenterPresentation NotesExamples of Geometric Art in the Islamic World.

PresenterPresentation NotesImages courtesy of TCD Research Collections. This is ‘The Young Geometrician’ in Early Printed Books.(Gall.Q.Q.9.7)

PresenterPresentation NotesImages courtesy of TCD Research Collections. This is ‘The Trinal Calculus’ in Manuscripts.(MS 1205)

PresenterPresentation NotesImages courtesy of TCD Research Collections. This is ‘The Creed Proved Mathematically’ in Manuscripts.(MS 1205)

PresenterPresentation NotesPart of a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about Proposition 1 in Euclid’s Elements, with the diagram of the same proof from Byrne. Full poem available: https://allpoetry.com/A-Mathematical-Problem

PresenterPresentation NotesA poem Berkeley had published in secret about the dispute he was having with James Jurin.

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