A little more about me: I am a mathematician and artist, fascinated by patterns, both theoretical and visual and their communication. My research is based on substitution tilings, tilings with a scaling symmetry like the Penrose Tiling. My research and art works are on my homepage.
To contact me email:
edmund dot harriss at mathematicians etc (see my hompage)
My thoughts on this blog and my reasons for writing are given in the following posts:
and this post gives some thoughts on twitter:
[...] Ed Harris mentioned on Twitter that a Slinky can make a very good model of a Klein bottle. Elin Roberts asked for an explanation, and I was curious too, so I did a bit of rummaging and found my old Slinky.1 [...]
[...] Edmund Harriss describes an interesting pattern he sees in mathematics and constructivist art in his interview on Strongly Connected Components. For most of history, mathematics and art have been fairly direct abstractions of physical reality. Then in the 20th century both became more and more abstract. But then a sort of reversal took place. After reaching heights of abstraction — Harriss cites Gödel and Picasso as examples — both mathematics and art began to apply abstractions back to the physical world. [...]
[...] this year I interviewed mathematician Edmund Harriss for an unrelated feature about design and science, and he told me a wonderful anecdote about these [...]
[...] this year I interviewed mathematician Edmund Harriss for an unrelated feature about design and science, and he told me a wonderful anecdote about these [...]
[...] this year I interviewed mathematician Edmund Harriss for an unrelated feature about design and science, and he told me a wonderful anecdote about these [...]
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[...] involved in a fascinating project with Edmund Harriss, a math professor at the University of Arkansas. We’re using improv to help students [...]
[...] Edmund Harris mentioned on Twitter that a Slinky can make a very good model of a Klein bottle. Elin Roberts asked for an explanation, and I was curious too, so I did a bit of rummaging and found my old Slinky.1 [...]