This is a photo of the Sonja Henie Ice Fountain, which stands outside the historic hockey arena in Lake Placid, New York. I suppose most people like it best when it’s covered in ice, but the mathematician in me thinks it looks just fine like this.
Art Photography
Math Art: Kolam Spirals
This is “Kolam – Brown: Four Spirals”, by Shanthi Chandrasekar, on display at the 2012 Bridges Math and Art Conference at Towson University.
Read more about the artist here.
Art Numbers Photography
Math Art: Cube Towers
This is “Prime Divisor Cube Towers on Ulam Spiral”, by Berhard Rietzl, on display at the 2012 Bridges Math and Art Conference at Towson University.
This is an artistic representation of the numbers 1 through 144. Each color represents a different prime divisor, and so each stack represents the prime factorization of the given number.
You can read more about this piece here.
