PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHORS
This first issue of the journal
became a "meeting place" of an international group of authors, representing
five continents. Although the papers give reliable information about the
authors, we add here some brief "informal" notes on all of them:
- Peter Hilton and Jean Pedersen
(U.S.A.) are research mathematicians and university professors who also
have a deep concern about mathematics teaching. They have collaborated
extensively since 1980, producing over 100 joint papers and several books.
One of their common interests is the discovery of interesting new areas
of research arising from familiar mathematics at the secondary level -
in the spirit of their great friend, the late George Pólya.
- Jadranka Hofman-Jablan (Yugoslavia)
is a musicologist who published a monograph on symmetry in music (in Serbo-Croatian);
she is the wife of the mathematician Slavik Jablan.
- Jay Kappraff (U.S.A.) is a
mathematician who is the author of the book Connections, an important
document of the "bridges" between art and science.
- John Langdon (U.S.A.) is a
graphic artist whose book Wordplay: Ambigrams and Reflections on the
Art of Ambigrams, with Martin Gardner's foreword, "reflects" (or "turns"
into) a new genre at the border of art and mathematics.
- John Robinson (Australia) is
sculptor who lives in Britain. Many of his works were commissioned by leading
scientific institutions, and he also inspired, among others, a paper by
H.S.M.Coxeter.
- Ryuji Takaki (Japan) is a physicist,
the Editor of the journal Forma, the official publication of Katachi
no kagaku kai (Society for Science on Form, Japan).
- Bernd Wegner (Germany) is a
mathematician, the editor-in-chief of the oldest survey journal in the
field of mathematics (Zentralblatt für Mathematik). His own
research field is differential geometry.
- Dmitry Weise (Russia) is a
medical doctor who also has time for the study of the Fibonacci numbers
of the phyllotaxis (leaf arrangement).
- Kim Williams (U.S.A.) is a
an architect who lives in Italy. She is the organizer of the international
conferences Nexus: Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics
and also the editor of our sister electronic journal Nexus. Her
new monograph Italian Pavements: Patterns in Space presents very
exciting aspects of art and mathematics.
2000
This issue of the journal is
dedicated to the "BRIDGES: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and
Science" Conference (Southwestern College, Winfield, KS, July 28 - 30,
2000) organized by Reza Sarhangi. The first six papers are republished
in the electronical form from the Conference Proceedings (ISBN-0-9665201-2-2),
with the kind permition of Reza Sarhangi, the Editor of the Proceedings.
2001
This issue of the journal is
dedicated to the "BRIDGES: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and
Science" Conference (Southwestern College, Winfield, KS, July 1989, 1990)
organized by Reza Sarhangi. The papers are republished in the electronical
form from the Conference Proceedings (ISBN-0-9665201-0-6, ISBN-0-9665201-1-4,
ISBN-0-9665201-2-2), with the kind permition of Reza Sarhangi, the Editor
of the Proceedings.
2002
2003
 
 
 
2004
2005
The special Issue of "Visual Mathematics" dedicated to the Conference "Bridges 2004" includes
only those articles that (a) were presented during the Conference,
(b) their electronic versions were available, and (c) their subjects are related
to the "Visual Mathematics" general theme.
2006
The special Issue of "Visual Mathematics" dedicated to the Conference "Bridges 2005" includes
only those articles that (a) were presented during the Conference,
(b) their electronic versions were available, and (c) their subjects are related
to the "Visual Mathematics" general theme.
2007
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