A Mathematical Artist - Helaman Ferguson

    Helaman Ferguson is both a sculptor and a mathematician (he has a Ph.D. in Math). Here's a quote from his web page:
    Mathematics, its ideas, symbols, and equations are an essential part of my personal design language. Much of my sculptural body of work celebrates the remarkable achievements of mathematics as an abstract art form -- a human activity spanning thousands of years. ... I use many different kinds of specialized tools, including computers, virtual image projectio from equations, tool position and orientation monitoring, air hammers and drills, ... My mathematical forms arrie by my subtractive process: my computer tool position and orientation monitoring system does not do the cuting work, Ido. The system gives me quantitative information. I want it this way because I learn the mathematical form which no one has ever seen, touched, felt, walked around, or crawled through.
    Here are a few of his works:
    >Wildsphere
    Torus with Cross Cap and Vector Field 2
    Umbilic Torus w/ Hilbert-Peano Surface Filling Curve
    Wildfire Wildsphere

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