I was talking to a friend of mine the other day, discussing how there is this part of me that really is repelled by order and practicality and therefore...mathematics. It really has been my worst and most frustrating subject all through my educated years. However, there is this strange part of me that could kind of see a possible romantic side to mathematics..
I just wish I could see what he saw in systems, in math. It's something that I find so mystifying in all of its order, and balance, and in the mere fact that it is so intangible, so abstract. I mean, "7" doesn't really exist. These numbers aren't sitting around somewhere on an island, waiting to be used. It's just a man-made idea. Math is beautiful and creative, in a way that I can't really grasp, but can see in the fog from a far away "liberal arts" place. Maybe I am the "square," uncultured, ignorant one after all. (This blog post is quite humbling.)
Since art is often expected to reflect society, isn't it normal for computers to be a popular subject? Here's BYU professor and artist Peter Everett's stuff, which seems to have mathematical systems at the heart of it. If you've walked through the H-FAC consistently, you've definitely seen his stuff before. This is the kind of imagery that I like to imagine is happening in the heads of mathematicians like Turing.
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| Peter Everett's "Event" Oil on Canvas 60" x 68" |
P.S. I really liked A Beautiful Mind.
I love A Beautiful Mind! I am a lover of the arts--I'm majoring in English teaching, I sing, I play piano, and I dance. Sometimes I go along with the rest of society in wondering what the great value is in art anyway (have you ever read a poem and wondered what its purpose possibly could be?) but then I imagine a life without art and I shudder. You should read this great talk, Madeline, I think you'd like it http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=a1f5ceb47f381210VgnVCM100000176f620a____&vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD
ReplyDeleteHey Madeline, just so you know, I'm the one evaluating you this time around. I am in the process of writing my reflective blog about yours so in case you wanted to check it out, my URL is jakydigiciv at blogspot dot com . It will probably be done sometime tonight. Hope you're doing well!
ReplyDeleteHi Jaky! If you wouldn't mind, I'd like maybe another day to prepare for the evaluation, I have a few more blog entries to post, just to catch up. Thanks!
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