Mathematicians and the arts
Jason Brown is a both a mathematician and a blues guitarist. I introduced him at a public lecture at Ryerson University as “…the hardest working man in mathematical music” (with all due respect to James Brown!). Brown wrote a popular mathematics book Our Days are Numbered, which featured his work on the prevalence and influence of mathematics…
Women mathematicians in fiction
Alex Kasman (College of Charleston) runs a great site on mathematical fiction, where he describes books, plays, and films featuring mathematics in some way. I found an interesting article by him on women mathematicians in fiction. He found that only about 100 works out of the 900 he catalogues contain female mathematicians. One of the…
Mathematicians are the new vampires: the sequel
A Brilliant Young Mind is an upcoming movie with Asa Butterfield (aka Ender in Ender’s Game) which is about a teenage autistic mathematics prodigy named Nathan. I saw this movie when it was called X+Y at the Toronto International Film Festival last September. The title was fine to me, but likely not so much to…