Beyond the Lab: The Art of Science and Math

These links provide more information about the art and science discussed in talk.

For more information, please visit APSU’s Science on Tap

1. Mandelbrot set

   • A Thing of Beauty: The Mandelbrot Set
   • mandelbrot.site. An online tool for exploring the Mandelbrot set. Works best on a large screen, such as a desktop computer or tablet.
   • The Buddhabrot. Various images of the Buddhabrot.

2. Marie Curie on Curiosity, Wonder, and the Spirit of Adventure in Science

3. Bristlecone Pines. From the National Park Service.

4. Carte figurative des pertes successives en hommes de l’Armée Française dans la campagne de Russie 1812–1813

   • Scan of the map at Gallica, the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (The national library of France).
   • Minard’s map. A book chapter on the map.

5. Interstellar

   • Interstellar, trailer 2. Gargantua, the movie’s black hole, appears at 1:37
   • Black Holes, Hollywood, and Interstellar: Q&A with Kip Thorne
   • NASA Visualization Shows a Black Hole’s Warped World. Press release
   • Black Hole Accretion Disk Visualization. A set of black hole simulations in NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio.

6. David S. Goodsell

   • Molecular Art | Molecular Science: Home page of David S. Goodsell
   • Molecular Landscapes by David S. Goodsell at PDB-101, an online portal for exploring the world of proteins and nucleic acids

7. Kenneth Libbrecht

   • Snow Crystals.com

8. ESA’s Biomass mission satellite

   • ESA’s Biomass
   • Biomass satellite returns striking first images of forests and more

9. JoAnne Growney

   • JoAnne Growney
   • Intersections – Poetry with Mathematics

10. Microbial art, agar art

    • American Society of Microbiology’s Agar Art Contest
    • Microbial art

11. Diatom Art

    • Diatom Art in the 19th Century
    • The Diatomist. A short documentary on Klaus Kemp, a modern master of diatom art.

12. Charles Babbage and the Difference Engine

    • The Babbage Engine
    • Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 2

13. Mathematical-based art

    • Bridges: Mathematics and the Arts. Organization promoting the mathematical connections in art, music, architecture, and culture.
    • Mathematical Art Galleries. Artwork, short films, and fashion exhibited at Bridges conferences, and the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) conferences.
    • Mathematical Poetry at Bridges, Poetry anthologies from Bridges conferences.
    • Papers archive. A list of the research papers presented at Bridges conferences. Many are not overly technical and do not require a significant level of math.

14. Klein Bottles

    • Introducing the Klein bottle
      
    • Acme Klein Bottle
    • Cliff Stoll
      • The man with 1,000 Klein Bottles UNDER his house - Numberphile
      • The KGB, the Computer, and Me. 1990 Nova episode.

15. Cracked Earth

    • Araan Schmidt’s ‘Cracked Earth’ brings outdoor art back to APSU
    • Araan Schmidt Sculpture - Cracked Earth

16. Hello, world

    • Artemis II
      • Hello, World, Artemis II, NASA. 2026
      • Artemis II Multimedia
    • Apollo 17
      • AS17-148-22727 (The Blue Marble), NASA, 1972.
      • History of the Blue Marble

17. Pi Day art

    • Martin Krzywinski’s Pi Day art.
      • Scroll down to the The Art of Pi(π), Phi(ϕ), and e section. Select a square on the left, and then scroll down to see the artwork.
      • Martin Krzywinski is a staff scientist at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Center. Be sure to check out his other work on the site.

18. Extra items that did not make it into the presentation.

    • M.C. Escher. An artist often associated with mathematics.
      • About M.C. Escher
      • Selected Works by M.C. Escher, artist
    • Nikon Small World. A microscopy photo and video competition sponsored by Nikon.
    • Earth As Art. From the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
    • University of Chicago’s Science As Art competition gallery