Math

Theater & Math

Theater & Math

Victoria Gould has pursued a strange set of parallel paths through intellectual space: she has been a successful actor and a mathematician, working first as a researcher and now as a teacher and communicator of math. Recently she helped develop a theater production called  ‘A disappearing number‘, on the collaboration between a famous English mathematician and an unknown Indian...

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A Great Resource for Math + Art Articles

We discovered Plus while looking for connections between math and art.  Plus has a great collection of relevant articles and interviews.  Here’s how they describe themselves: Plus is an internet magazine which aims to introduce readers to the beauty and the practical applications of mathematics. A lot of people don’t have a very clear idea what “real” maths consists of,...

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Harmonious Connections

Harmonious Connections

Another math / music resource: Math and Music: Harmonious Connections by Trudi Hammel Garland “explores the music of various cultures and the sounds heard in nature while highlighting the mathematical concepts, such as proportion, patterns, Fibonacci numbers, geometric transformations, and trigonometry, found in music.”

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